Safety Alert Issued On Avandia
May 22, 2007
Dr. Steven Nissen and Kathy Wolski conducted a study that compared patients taking Avandia with patients not using the drug. The Results were to appear in the June 14th edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study found the risk of a heart attack was increased 43% among the patients that were taking Avandia. There is also a 64% increased risk of dying from cardiovascular causes while taking the drug.
These findings were considered enough of a public health matter for the New England Journal of Medicine to release it several weeks before they were to appear in the print edition.
Glaxo downplayed the report of heart risks. Dr. Lawson McCartney, who heads-up Glaxo’s diabetes drug development team, said the company is not seeing anything like the problems reported.
Experts say the overall risk is small and cautioned people not to stop taking the drug on their own but to talk to their doctors.
(Via FoxNews and EMaxHealth
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