Washington March 5: Use of statins can increase the risk of developing diabetes by 46 percent even after adjustment for confounding factors claims a new study. The study by Professor Markku Laakso at the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital Finland and colleagues looked into the effects of statin treatment on the risk of type 2 diabetes and deterioration of blood sugar control in 8749 non-diabetic men in a 6-year follow-up of the population-based Metabolic Syndrome in Men (METSIM) study based in Kuopio Finland. The authors also investigated the mechanisms of statin-induced diabetes by evaluating changes in insulin