I am a 31 year old female with type 2 diabetes. I also have a congenetial heart disease called PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale). I am not on any medication for the PFO because it is small. They are just watching it for now as I grow older.
Here is my problem. There has been a recent study on the type two diabetes drug avandia, about causing heart issues. I was on this drug for 3 years, 1998 to 2001. Then got pregnant and after the baby went on metmorfin. I am not sure what I should do. Get a EKG or what. I mean that was 6 years ago you would of thought I would have had side effects by now.
Any ideas.
2007-06-22 08:59:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
You should do nothing so far as your history of having taken rosiglitazone/Avandia is concerned. There was not a recent study but rather a recent meta-analysis. This is where a researcher looks at the results of various studies and tries to draw conclusions. The conclusion was that the drug might be linked to heart attacks or heart failures. The Food and Drug Administration did not find this meta-analysis compelling. Quite honestly I concluded from the meta-analysis that rosiglitazone was not a problem. There is a trial on-going to look at whether or not the drug has adverse effects upon the heart. Based upon the early results of this trial and previous trials the Food and Drug Administration is cautioning physicians that rosiglitazone/Avandia and pioglitazone/Actos may best be avoided in those with heart failure which does not mean that the drugs cause heart failure. In your case it has been 6 years since you took rosiglitazone. Nothing happened. Nothing to worry about. I hope that your diabetes is doing well. I wish you the best of health. And may God bless.
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2016-05-19 22:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take home point: There was no new information in the article.
It was funded by the manufacturer of a competitor of Avandia.
The New England Journal of Medicine has been taken to task for publishing it. There was a scathing reply in the British medical journal, the Lancet.
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