Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes pills known as DPP-4 therapies got a mixed safety report on Monday as studies showed they did not raise the risk of heart attacks but might be linked to heart failure, where the heart fails to pump blood adequately.
Reassuringly, the medicines were not associated with increased rates of either inflammation of the pancreas or cancer - something that has been a worry in the past.
However, in the case of AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's approved drug Onglyza, there was a small increase in hospitalisations for heart failure.
"It is a little bit concerning," said Dr. Christopher Grainger of Duke University Medical Center, who was not involved in the research. "I'm sure the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) will want to know more about it."
http://blouinnews.com/67078/story/doctors-get-mixed-news-diabetes-drugs
Reassuringly, the medicines were not associated with increased rates of either inflammation of the pancreas or cancer - something that has been a worry in the past.
However, in the case of AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's approved drug Onglyza, there was a small increase in hospitalisations for heart failure.
"It is a little bit concerning," said Dr. Christopher Grainger of Duke University Medical Center, who was not involved in the research. "I'm sure the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) will want to know more about it."
http://blouinnews.com/67078/story/doctors-get-mixed-news-diabetes-drugs