New analysis links diabetes drug Avandia to great risk of heart attack

New analysis links diabetes drug Avandia to great risk of heart attack
New analysis links diabetes drug Avandia to great risk of heart attack

A new analysis links the widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia to greater risk of heart attack and possibly death.

More than 6 million people worldwide have taken the drug since it came on the market eight years ago. Pooled results of dozens of studies revealed a 45 percent greater risk of heart attack, according to the analysis, published online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Author`s name Angela Antonova
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