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Looks like they will try to get rid of metaformin (glucophage) like they did phenformin citing similar dangers.
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Diabetes drug can be deadly
Some patients inappropriately prescribed metformin: study
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
May 14 — A significant number of patients with diabetes are inappropriately prescribed a common drug that potentially could kill them, new research suggests. The study is one of several on diabetes published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association — the first JAMA issue devoted entirely to research on diabetes, which has reached epidemic levels and afflicts about 17 million people nationwide.
THE DRUG metformin, also sold as Glucophage, helps the body use insulin and is among the most common drugs for Type II diabetes, which is linked to obesity and is sometimes called adult-onset, although it has started showing up in children.
The drug package insert warns that Glucophage can cause a rare side effect called lactic acidosis, a buildup of lactic acid in the blood that is fatal in about half of all cases. The label says it should not be used by patients with kidney disease or those who are taking drugs for heart failure.
But nearly one-fourth of patients met at least one of those criteria in the study, which involved 100 Glucophage outpatient prescriptions from a University of North Carolina hospital pharmacy in Chapel Hill. Patient charts also were studied, and none had developed lactic acidosis, said lead researcher Cheryl Horlen, who now works at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/751924.asp?cp1=1
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Diabetes drug can be deadly
Some patients inappropriately prescribed metformin: study
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
May 14 — A significant number of patients with diabetes are inappropriately prescribed a common drug that potentially could kill them, new research suggests. The study is one of several on diabetes published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association — the first JAMA issue devoted entirely to research on diabetes, which has reached epidemic levels and afflicts about 17 million people nationwide.
THE DRUG metformin, also sold as Glucophage, helps the body use insulin and is among the most common drugs for Type II diabetes, which is linked to obesity and is sometimes called adult-onset, although it has started showing up in children.
The drug package insert warns that Glucophage can cause a rare side effect called lactic acidosis, a buildup of lactic acid in the blood that is fatal in about half of all cases. The label says it should not be used by patients with kidney disease or those who are taking drugs for heart failure.
But nearly one-fourth of patients met at least one of those criteria in the study, which involved 100 Glucophage outpatient prescriptions from a University of North Carolina hospital pharmacy in Chapel Hill. Patient charts also were studied, and none had developed lactic acidosis, said lead researcher Cheryl Horlen, who now works at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/751924.asp?cp1=1
