Avandia Diabetes Drug Heart Problems, Death and FDA Warning

June 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Thanks FDA for sending Avandia to market first for profit and then warning us about its harmful effects!

Before taking harmful and sketchy meds (which the FDA has a track record of sending to market before thoroughly testing for their deadly effects), try a natural cure and approach to resolving your diabetes health problems.

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CBS news reports a new study linking the controversial diabetes drug Avandia to heart problems, strokes and deaths in older adults, and says it is more dangerous than a rival drug, Actos.

The study, a huge review of federal health care records, comes two weeks ahead of a FDA hearing on Avandia's safety. The lead author, Dr. David Graham, is an FDA scientist who wants the pill banned.

As many as 100,000 heart attacks, strokes, deaths and cases of heart failure may be due to Avandia since it came on the market in 1999, Graham said.

Harms from Avandia are great enough to "put you in a hospital or in a cemetery," he said.

Before taking harmful and sketchy meds (which the FDA has a track record of sending to market before thoroughly testing for their deadly effects), try a natural cure and approach to resolving your diabetes health problems.

A better way to cure diabetes naturally -  http://www.amazon.com/New-Bible-Cure-Diabetes-Siloam/dp/1...

The study involved 227,571 federal health program patients, average age 74, who started on Actos or Avandia from July 2006 through June 2009 and were followed for three years on average.

Avandia patients were 27 percent more likely to suffer strokes, 25 percent more likely to develop heart failure and 14 percent more likely to die than those on Actos, researchers found.

There were 2,593 heart attacks, heart failure cases, strokes and deaths among the 67,593 Avandia users, and 5,386 of those problems among the 159,978 people taking Actos. Just dividing these numbers to compare side effect rates can't be done, though, because people were on the drugs for differing lengths of time.

For the whole CBS article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20009124-10391704....)

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