BMJ 2007;335:223 (4 August) by Janice Hopkins Tanne.
Rosiglitazone (Avandia) and pioglitazone (Actos) DOUBLED the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes (Diabetes Care 2007;30:2148-53).
The authors said that although drugs in the thiazolidinedione class were known to increase the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, the magnitude of the [...]
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TYPE 2 DIABETES AND HEART FAILURE
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