“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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Actos and Avandia being linked to increased heart failure

1. Diabetes – especially Type 2 (Adult onset) diabetes
2. High blood pressure
3. Family history of heart disease (Father under age 55, mother under age 65 or siblings with heart disease are considered strong risk factors)
4. Smoking – the more the merrier – smoking a single cigarette per day is not the same as 2 packs per day, but both are a bad idea.
5. High Cholesterol.

Learn more at Dr. Lamberts’s blog.

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Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease