1. Bloomgarden ZT. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Diabetes Care 2011;34:e24-e30.
Article PubMed PMC
2. Webb DR, Khunti K, Gray LJ, Srinivasan BT, Farooqi A, Wareham N, Griffin SC, Davies MJ. for the ADDITION-Leicester study group. Intensive multifactorial intervention improves modelled 5-year coronary heart disease risk in screen-detected type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Diabet Med Epub 2011 Sep 13. DOI:
10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03441.x.
3. Pedersen TR, Kjekshus J, Berg K, Haghfelt T, Faergeman O, Faergeman G, Pyorala K, Miettinen T, Wilhelmsen L, Olsson AG, Wedel H. Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group. Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S). 1994. Atheroscler Suppl 2004;5:81-87.
PubMed
4. Sato H, Kinjo K, Ito H, Hirayama A, Nanto S, Fukunami M, Nishino M, Lim YJ, Kijima Y, Koretsune Y, Nakatani D, Mizuno H, Shimizu M, Hori M. Osaka Acute Coronary Insufficiency Study (OACIS)-LIPID Study Investigators. Effect of early use of low-dose pravastatin on major adverse cardiac events in patients with acute myocardial infarction: the OACIS-LIPID Study. Circ J 2008;72:17-22.
Article PubMed
5. Almdal T, Scharling H, Jensen JS, Vestergaard H. The independent effect of type 2 diabetes mellitus on ischemic heart disease, stroke, and death: a population-based study of 13,000 men and women with 20 years of follow-up. Arch Intern Med 2004;164:1422-1426.
Article PubMed
6. Bulugahapitiya U, Siyambalapitiya S, Sithole J, Idris I. Is diabetes a coronary risk equivalent? Systematic review and metaanalysis. Diabet Med 2009;26:142-148.
Article PubMed
7. Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. Executive summary of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA 2001;285:2486-2497.
Article PubMed
8. American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes--2011. Diabetes Care 2011;34(Suppl 1):S11-S61.
Article PubMed PMC
9. LaRosa JC. At the heart of the statin benefit. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:1863
Article PubMed
10. Brunzell JD, Davidson M, Furberg CD, Goldberg RB, Howard BV, Stein JH, Witztum JL. American Diabetes Association. American College of Cardiology Foundation. Lipoprotein management in patients with cardiometabolic risk: consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association and the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Diabetes Care 2008;31:811-822.
Article PubMed
11. Grundy SM, Cleeman JI, Merz CN, Brewer HB Jr, Clark LT, Hunninghake DB, Pasternak RC, Smith SC Jr, Stone NJ. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. American College of Cardiology Foundation. American Heart Association. Implications of recent clinical trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. Circulation 2004;110:227-239.
Article PubMed
12. Pearson TA, Laurora I, Chu H, Kafonek S. The lipid treatment assessment project (L-TAP): a multicenter survey to evaluate the percentages of dyslipidemic patients receiving lipid-lowering therapy and achieving low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goals. Arch Intern Med 2000;160:459-467.
Article PubMed
13. Saaddine JB, Engelgau MM, Beckles GL, Gregg EW, Thompson TJ, Narayan KM. A diabetes report card for the United States: quality of care in the 1990s. Ann Intern Med 2002;136:565-574.
Article PubMed
14. Kennedy AG, MacLean CD, Littenberg B, Ades PA, Pinckney RG. The challenge of achieving national cholesterol goals in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2005;28:1029-1034.
Article PubMed
15. National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) final report. Circulation 2002;106:3143-3421.
Article PubMed
16. Ko SH, Kim SR, Kim DJ, Oh SJ, Lee HJ, Shim KH, Woo MH, Kim JY, Kim NH, Kim JT, Kim CH, Kim HJ, Jeong IK, Hong EK, Cho JH, Mok JO, Yoon KH. Committee of Clinical Practice Guidelines, Korean Diabetes Association. 2011 clinical practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes in Korea. Diabetes Metab J 2011;35:431-436.
Article PubMed PMC
17. Yan AT, Yan RT, Tan M, Hackam DG, Leblanc KL, Kertland H, Tsang JL, Jaffer S, Kates ML, Leiter LA, Fitchett DH, Langer A, Goodman SG. Vascular Protection (VP) and Guidelines Oriented Approach to Lipid Lowering (GOALL) Registries Investigators. Contemporary management of dyslipidemia in highrisk patients: targets still not met. Am J Med 2006;119:676-683.
Article PubMed
18. Simons LA, Levis G, Simons J. Apparent discontinuation rates in patients prescribed lipid-lowering drugs. Med J Aust 1996;164:208-211.
Article PubMed
19. Diamantopoulos EJ, Athyros VG, Yfanti GK, Migdalis EN, Elisaf M, Vardas PE, Manolis AS, Karamitsos DT, Ganotakis ES, Hatseras D. OLYMPIC Study Group. The control of dyslipidemia in outpatient clinics in Greece (OLYMPIC) Study. Angiology 2005;56:731-741.
Article PubMed
20. Hobbs FD, Southworth H. Achievement of English National Service Framework lipid-lowering goals: pooled data from recent comparative treatment trials of statins at starting doses. Int J Clin Pract 2005;59:1171-1177.
Article PubMed
21. Alzahrani T, Marrat S, Haider A. Management of dyslipidemia in primary care. Can J Cardiol 2003;19:1499-1502.
PubMed
22. Tuomilehto J, Rastenyte D, Jousilahti P, Sarti C, Vartiainen E. Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for death from stroke. Prospective study of the middle-aged Finnish population. Stroke 1996;27:210-215.
Article PubMed
23. Athyros VG, Papageorgiou AA, Symeonidis AN, Didangelos TP, Pehlivanidis AN, Bouloukos VI, Mikhailidis DP. GREACE Study Collaborative Group. Early benefit from structured care with atorvastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus. Angiology 2003;54:679-690.
Article PubMed
24. Colhoun HM, Betteridge DJ, Durrington PN, Hitman GA, Neil HA, Livingstone SJ, Thomason MJ, Mackness MI, Charlton-Menys V, Fuller JH. CARDS investigators. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with atorvastatin in type 2 diabetes in the Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS): multicentre randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2004;364:685-696.
Article PubMed
25. Pape GA, Hunt JS, Butler KL, Siemienczuk J, LeBlanc BH, Gillanders W, Rozenfeld Y, Bonin K. Team-based care approach to cholesterol management in diabetes mellitus: two-year cluster randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med 2011;171:1480-1486.
Article PubMed
26. Yu-Poth S, Zhao G, Etherton T, Naglak M, Jonnalagadda S, Kris-Etherton PM. Effects of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Step I and Step II dietary intervention programs on cardiovascular disease risk factors: a meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 1999;69:632-646.
Article PubMed
27. D'Agostino RB Sr, Grundy S, Sullivan LM, Wilson P. CHD Risk Prediction Group. Validation of the Framingham coronary heart disease prediction scores: results of a multiple ethnic groups investigation. JAMA 2001;286:180-187.
Article PubMed