Figure 1.

Overview of the study design. To evaluate the risk for new-onset diabetes mellitus (NODM) after exposure to statins, statin-exposed patients were compared to matched nonexposed patients (comparison 1). To evaluate the risks associated with 6 different statins (atorvastatin, fluvastatin, pitavastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin), comparison 2 (comparison between patients exposed to each statin and the matched nonexposed patients) and comparison 3 (within-class analysis) were conducted.