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Prescriber's Letter Clarifies Avandia Heart Attack Warning With Algorithm

Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007

Analysts at Prescriber's Letter say that crunching the study's numbers reveals only part of the story. Since this report is a meta-analysis, it is merely a study of prior study results.

Resistance to Daily Aspirin Therapy Seen in Diabetics

Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007

Diabetic patients exhibit a higher prevalence of aspirin resistance at a dosage of 81 mg/day than do nondiabetics with coronary artery disease.

Avandia Tied To 43% Increased Heart Attack Risk In Study

Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007

Analysis reveals Avandia linked to 43 percent increased risk for heart attack and 64 percent greater risk of cardiovascular death.

Antioxidant Achieves a 64% Reduction In the Onset of Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Succinobucol, a novel antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties, achieved a 64% reduction in new-onset diabetes in patients with a recent acute coronary syndrome.

FDA Issues Safety Alert on Avandia

Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Safety data from controlled clinical trials have shown that there is a potentially significant increase in the risk of heart attack and heart-related deaths in patients taking Avandia.

Diabetes and Heart Failure Is Double Trouble for Older Women

Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2007

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that the effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men. The effect is even more pronounced in older patients.

iPods Can Make Pacemakers Malfunction

Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2007

The tunes pumped out by iPods may be off beat to patients with pacemakers, whose devices could be subjected to potentially dangerous interference, reported investigators.

Coronary Calcification Independently Predicts All-Cause Mortality

Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2007

The results of a new study show that, the coronary artery calcification (CAC) score, measured by electron beam tomography, provides incremental information independent of traditional risk factors on all-cause mortality risk.

Aspirin Less Effective Heart Treatment for Women than Men

Posted: Friday, May 11, 2007

A new study shows that aspirin therapy for coronary artery disease is four times more likely to be ineffective in women compared to men with the same medical history.

Increasing Proportion of Cardiovascular Disease Due to Diabetes Over the Last 50 Years

Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007

A new study shows that as rates of diabetes have risen in the U.S., the proportion of cardiovascular disease (CVD) linked to diabetes has also increased.