Blisstree » diabetis drugs http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Actos and Avandia being linked to increased heart failure http://www.blisstree.com/articles/actos-and-avandia-being-linked-to-increased-heart-failure-50/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/actos-and-avandia-being-linked-to-increased-heart-failure-50/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:03:53 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.aheartylife.com/2008/08/29/actos-and-avandia-being-linked-to-increased-heart-failure/ Post from: Blisstree

Actos and Avandia being linked to increased heart failure

]]> Over 20% of all diabetics have heart disease. That is why it is so scary when new research and studies come out that prove diabetic medication to harm your heart. And here we go again… Two Wake Forest University School of Medicine faculty members sifted through three trials to come to the conclusion that certain diabetic medications could cause increased heart failure- ACCORD, ADVANCE, and the Veterans Affairs Diabetes study.

“We strongly recommend restrictions in the use of thiazolidinediones (the class of drugs) and question the rationale for leaving rosiglitazone on the market,” write Sonal Singh, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of internal medicine, and Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor of public health sciences. Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone are the two major thiazolidinediones.

What are the drugs being above mentioned? Actos and Avandia. If you take these medications please talk to your physician if you have any concerns or questions.  Remember, you need the risk factors to be affected in a negative way.

via Wake Forest 

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