new warnings about using rosiglitazone (Avandia) in patients with ANY degree of heart failure
September 2006
Experts are giving new warnings about using rosiglitazone (Avandia) in patients with ANY degree of heart failure.
Physicians already avoid giving rosiglitazone or pioglitazone (Actos) to patients with severe heart failure.
Now there's evidence that rosiglitazone increases cardiac risk in patients with LESS severe heart failure.
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