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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in patients with type 1 diabetes. However, studies in this patient population on common strategies for the primary prevention of CVD — such as statin treatment — are lacking, creating uncertainty in guidelines. To address this gap, researchers used a UK database to study 4000 adults with type 1 diabetes and suboptimal cholesterol levels (LDL cholesterol ≥100 mg/dL or non-HDL cholesterol ≥130 mg/dL) who initiated statin therapy and 17,000 similar patients who did not use statins. At baseline, the patients’ mean age was 45 years, mean hemoglobin A1c was 8.6%, and one-fourth had hypertension. Outcomes included all-cause mortality and major CVD events (myocardial infarction, stro…