Avandia - Heart Condition and Heart Attacks

Patients taking Avandia having developed  a heart condition and have suffered a heart attacks.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are aware of a potential safety issue related to Avandia.

June 14, 2007 - Safety data from 42 controlled clinical trials compared patients taking Avandia with patients not using the drug. The studies included nearly 28,000 patients, 15,560 of who were taking Avandia. The researchers found the risk of a heart attack was increased 43 percent among those taking Avandia. There is also a 64 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular causes while taking the drug. The implications of these discoveries were considered enough of a public health matter to have caused the New England Journal of Medicine to release the findings several weeks before they appeared in print.  Contact: bolenrj@bolenandbolenlaw.com