GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug safety questioned

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A prominent US clinician has concluded that a diabetes drug produced by UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) increases the risks of heart attack and death.

Steven Nissen from the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, undertook a meta-analysis of clinical studies comparing patients treated with GSK\'s Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) with controls. He concluded that Avandia was associated with a 43 per cent increase in the risk of heart attack. His article, published in the 14 June edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), was released early by the journal\'s editors due to its public health concern.



I mean wow i'm amazed wasn't it just a couple of days ago the story about taking vitamins increases cancer and heart problem risk as well. What are people to do if the supposed treatment for one illness leads to giving them the risk of a bigger and more dangerous one in the longrun. Do you just risk it and hope for the best??

It's a horrible situation to be in. I admin, I have been forwarding the story to people that might find themselves in such a situation. It's one thing after another these days. You take this cure for one thing and then it leads to another condition. If I did not know better I would think they were all working together to keep the populus medicated for life. (Well do I really know better or just think I do?)

I am just glad the story came out, and I hope that people who this might be affecting see it in time.

Defintely agree and with a few members of my family who are diabetic it just hit the message home harder you really can't take anything for granted these days and according to the WHO at least 171 million people worldwide have diabetes, this figure is likely to be more than double by 2030. It's crazy.

Someone posted a thread yesterday about how diseases like this and cancer had just increased over the last 80 years. I think it was talking about our food supply and a corrolation to the unprecidented increases in such things.