On the cover: The seventeenth century engraving of Scylla and Charybdis by Matthäus Merian the Elder. Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom from Greek mythology meaning “between a rock and a hard place.” (A in the engraving represents Scylla, and B is Charybdis.) This issue of Diabetes features a Commentary by Mitchell and Marette, “Statin-Induced Insulin Resistance Through Inflammasome Activation: Sailing Between Scylla and Charybdis” (p. 3569).


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