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Posted on Sep 12th 2007 11:47AM by Brian WhiteFiled Under: Diet & Weight Loss
Actos, the diabetes drug, has a weird set of warnings. The drug can cut the risk of heart attack, stroke and death -- but at the same time, a similar drug (Avandia) raises the risk of heart failure. What on earth is going on here?Two studies on Actos and Avandia reached that conclusion this week, and it sets off an alarm for me. Without seeing the actual study data, the research showed that Actos lowered the risk of heart attack, stroke and overall death by 18 percent. So far, that's comforting, I think.
However, in another stab at GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia diabetes drug, a separate study stated that it actually increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent. In addition, it raised the risk of heart failure by more than 100%.
With the torrent of news on the side effects of newer drugs these days, perhaps the goal is to continually confuse potential patients for some reason? Some studies find this, and some studies find that. Who knows what exact variables are being looked at in each study. Certainly not me.
