Therapeutic effect of statins on patients with diabetes mellitus complicated atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases / 心血管康复医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore therapeutic effect of statins on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) complicated atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases.Methods: Clinical data of 103 T2DM patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, who were treated in our hospital from Oct 2013 to Dec 2015, were retrospectively studied.According to usage of statins or not, patients were divided into routine treatment group (n=50,didn't use statins) and statin group (n=53,received statins based on routine treatment), both groups were treated for one year.Blood lipid levels before and after treatment, and incidence of cardio-and cerebrovascular events during treatment were measured and compared between two groups.Results: Compared with before treatment, after treatment, there were significant reductions in levels of triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and significant rise in level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) in statin group(P<0.01 all).Compared with routine treatment group after treatment, there were significant reductions in levels of TG [(2.13±0.37) mmol/L vs.(1.74±0.41) mmol/L], TC [(5.38±0.45) mmol/L vs.(4.34±0.73) mmol/L] and LDL-C [(3.63±0.72) mmol/L vs.(2.55±0.61) mmol/L], and significant rise in HDL-C level [(0.95±0.31)mmol/L vs.(1.34±0.35)mmol/L] in statin group, P<0.01 all.During one-year treatment, incidence rate of cardio-and cerebrovascular events in statin group was significantly lower than that of routine treatment group (18.18% vs.56.67%), P=0.002.Conclusion: Statins could effectively correct abnormal lipid metabolism and reduce risk of cardio-and cerebrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated atherosclerosis cardiovascular diseases.