Glaxo’s diabetes drug may cause heart attacks

Via Nonunk.com

Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s widely used drug for treating type 2 diabetes, raises the risk of heart death by 64 percent and the risk of heart attack by 43 percent, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

The news about Avandia, a $3 billion a year drug also known as rosiglitazone, triggered a free fall in GSK’s shares, which closed off more than 5 percent on the London Stock Exchange. The slide continued on the
New York Stock Exchange, with shares closing down nearly 8 percent.

This is particularly disturbing news, considering the sheer amount of Type-2 Diabetics out there 64%!!!! I just wish they would have done more testing and do more testing the next time around (If there is a next time for them).

Tony Blair talks about healthy living, including UK diabetes stats

Via Gaurdian.co.uk

Obesity is rising rapidly. 1 in 4 adults and children in the UK is obese, and rising. The social effects of alcohol abuse are widespread and worsening. In the last 30 years of the 20th century the death rate from liver cirrhosis went up 8 fold amongst men and almost 7 fold amongst women aged 35 to 44. Smoking may account for half of the social class health inequality. An estimated 1.7 million people in the UK have type 2 diabetes. 10 per cent of NHS resources are used to treat diabetes. This could double by 2010. And it is avoidable. Three quarters of diabetics are type 2 diabetics and two thirds of them have a disease that could be preventable with exercise diet and more healthy choices.

While I don’t know the complete diabetes statistics in the UK (Does anyone else?), that is a pretty large number. Right now I believe the U.S., UK, Australia and India are having the largest surges of diabetes diagnoses, especially Type-2.

What is Gestational Diabetes and what causes it?

Via Fox30online.com

Diabetes that occurs as a result of pregnancy is known as gestational (jess-TAY-shun-ul) diabetes (die-uh-BEE-tees). Risk factors for this condition include obesity, a family history of diabetes, age over 25, or previously having a child who was very large, had birth defects, or was stillborn.

While not at the explosive growth of Type-2 Diabetes, I keep hearing and seeing more of Gestational diabetes being a big problem. Especially in the Island (Hawaii etc) they are having a pretty hard time dealing with the newly diagnosed.

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