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# Statins may cut pancreatic cancer risk in diabetes mellitus patients
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/statins_may_cut_pancreatic_cancer_risk_0204160408/
- Published: 2016-02-04T17:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:19:22.000Z
- Description: Drawing on Taiwan's National Health Insurance data from 1997-2010, researchers found pancreatic cancer in 0.14 percent of diabetes patients taking higher annual statin doses, against 0.25 percent among those taking little or none. Risk fell as the annual dose rose.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Drug, Health News, #vivvo-import

Thurday Feb 4, 2016 (foodconsumer.org) -- Use of statins has been associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Asian people. But a new study has now suggested that taking statins may help lower their risk for pancreatic cancer in those who have developed diabetes mellitus .

The study based on data from participants in the National Health Insurance Research database recorded from 1997–2010 in Taiwan found the rate of pancreatic cancer in diabetes mellitus patients who took statins in greater than 28 cumulative defined daily dose (cDDD) in a year were 0.14%, compared to 0.25% among those patients who used no statins or in less than 28 cDDD per year.

Higher annual doses were associated with lower risks for pancreatic cancer in diabetes mellitus patients. Specifically, after adjustment for other confounders, diabetics using statins in 28 to 83 cDDD per year, 84 to 180 cDDD per year or greater than 180 cDDD per year were 22%, 52% or 67% less likely to develop pancreatic cancer, respectively. (David Liu)

*Mei-Jyh Chen, Yu-Tse Tsan, Jyh-Ming Liou, Yi-Chia Lee, Ming-Shiang Wu, Han-Mo Chiu, Hsiu-Po Wang andPau-Chung Chen, Statins and the risk of pancreatic cancer in Type 2 diabetic patients—A population-based cohort study, International Journal of Cancer, Volume 138, Issue 3, pages 594–603, 1 February 2016*