Avandia Related Heart Attacks Surge

By Author: Mark Ramirez
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According to reports by the Associated Press, Avandia side effects reports have tripled in the month after the report that the blockbuster drug used to treat diabetes drastically raised users risk of heart attack.

From the AP:

In the 35 days after May 21, when the New England Journal of Medicine published the analysis on the Internet, reports of heart attacks, deaths and hospitalizations leaped. [...]

Only five heart attacks were reported in the 35 days before the study, compared with 90 in the same period afterward. Heart-related hospitalizations went from 11 to 126. The reports involve rosiglitazone, sold as Avandia and Avandamet.

The reports suggest that since the report on Avandia was released, doctors have now begun to report problems that they had previously deemed unrelated to the drug. According to Wired Science, it's not possible to infer any conclusion more complete than that, because the FDA's reporting system is completely voluntary. It has value as an early-warning system, but that's about it -- and it's the foundation of the FDA's post-approval drug monitoring process.

Although ...
... the safety of the drug is still in question, there is no doubt that the FDA is in need of serious reform.

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