Role of diuretics, β blockers, and statins in increasing the risk of diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance: reanalysis of data from the NAVIGATOR study

• Published in: BMJ (Online) 2013-12, Vol.347, p.f6745
• Main Authors: Shen, Lan, Shah, Bimal R, Reyes, Eric M, Thomas, Laine, Wojdyla, Daniel, Diem, Peter, Leiter, Lawrence A, Charbonnel, Bernard, Mareev, Viacheslav, Horton, Edward S, Haffner, Steven M, Soska, Vladimir, Holman, Rury, Bethel, M Angelyn, Schaper, Frank, Sun, Jie-Lena, McMurray, John JV, Califf, Robert M, Krum, Henry
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adrenergic beta-Antagonists - adverse effects; Adrenergic beta-Antagonists - therapeutic use; Aged; Calcium Channel Blockers - adverse effects; Calcium Channel Blockers - therapeutic use; Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - prevention & control; Cyclohexanes - therapeutic use; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - chemically induced; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - diagnosis; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - epidemiology; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - etiology; Diuretics - adverse effects; Diuretics - therapeutic use; Double-Blind Method; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Glucose Intolerance - complications; Glucose Intolerance - drug therapy; Glucose Tolerance Test; Humans; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - adverse effects; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Incidence; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Statistical; Phenylalanine - analogs & derivatives; Phenylalanine - therapeutic use; Risk Factors; Tetrazoles - adverse effects; Tetrazoles - therapeutic use; Treatment Outcome; Valine - adverse effects; Valine - analogs & derivatives; Valine - therapeutic use; Valsartan
• ISSN: 0959-8138; 1756-1833
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f6745

Objective To examine the degree to which use of β blockers, statins, and diuretics in patients with impaired glucose tolerance and other cardiovascular risk factors is associated with new onset diabetes. Design Reanalysis of data from the Nateglinide and Valsartan in Impaired Glucose Tolerance Outcomes Research (NAVIGATOR) trial. Setting NAVIGATOR trial. Participants Patients who at baseline (enrolment) were treatment naïve to β blockers (n=5640), diuretics (n=6346), statins (n=6146), and calcium channel blockers (n=6294). Use of calcium channel blocker was used as a metabolically neutral control. Main outcome measures Development of new onset diabetes diagnosed by standard plasma glucose level in all participants and confirmed with glucose tolerance testing within 12 weeks after the increased glucose value was recorded. The relation between each treatment and new onset diabetes was evaluated using marginal structural models for causal inference, to account for time dependent confounding in treatment assignment. Results During the median five years of follow-up, β blockers were started in 915 (16.2%) patients, diuretics in 1316 (20.7%), statins in 1353 (22.0%), and calcium channel blockers in 1171 (18.6%). After adjusting for baseline characteristics and time varying confounders, diuretics and statins were both associated with an increased risk of new onset diabetes (hazard ratio 1.23, 95% confidence interval 1.06 to 1.44, and 1.32, 1.14 to 1.48, respectively), whereas β blockers and calcium channel blockers were not associated with new onset diabetes (1.10, 0.92 to 1.31, and 0.95, 0.79 to 1.13, respectively). Conclusions Among people with impaired glucose tolerance and other cardiovascular risk factors and with serial glucose measurements, diuretics and statins were associated with an increased risk of new onset diabetes, whereas the effect of β blockers was non-significant. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00097786.