Heart Failure: The Missing 800 Pound Gorilla In Diabetes Trials
Is heart failure the missing 800 pound gorilla in diabetes trials? That’s the argument proposed by a group of prominent cardiovascular and diabetes researchers. It was long believed that by virtue of their glucose-lowering properties diabetes drugs would confer substantial cardiovascular benefits. Now, however, that belief is no longer widely held and the FDA now requires cardiovascular outcome trials for new diabetes drugs. But, write the researchers in an article published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, these trials are failing to track and analyze one key cardiovascular endpoint, thereby diminishing the value of these trials in assessing More…
Source: CardioBrief - Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes Avandia diabetes glucose control heart failure rosigliitazone Source Type: blogs
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