Documento de consenso de la Red de Grupos de Estudio de la Diabetes en Atención Primaria de la Salud) sobre el tratamiento de la dislipidemia en la diabetes tipo 2 en prevención primaria

Most clinical practice guidelines recommend statin therapy in diabetic patients in primary prevention, considering that diabetes is a coronary risk equivalent. Discrepancies between studies may be due to the complexity of diabetes. Not all patients with type 2 diabetes in primary prevention are similar. In patient with type 2 diabetes cardiovascular risk depends on several variables, including age, duration of diabetes, degree of control of the different vascular risk factors and the presence or not of nephropathy or other subclinical atherosclerotic lesions.