Statin plus fibrate sucks

Haven't read the full paper yet but the abstract says it all: Extra lipid lowering does nothing to alter the trivial benefits seen with statin therapy.

"Conclusions The combination of fenofibrate and simvastatin did not reduce the rate of fatal cardiovascular events, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke, as compared with simvastatin alone. These results do not support the routine use of combination therapy with fenofibrate and simvastatin to reduce cardiovascular risk in the majority of high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes."

IT'S NOT THE CHOLESTEROL

EDIT from the full text, it's not the triglycerides either. Why not just eat less sugar as per Nigel's comment? Simple but scary! To me this is pretty convincing that trigs are harmless, they are a surrogate for carbohydrate/fructose...

Peter