Avandia Lawyer - Diabetes Clinical Trial Halted Due to Deaths
February 7, 2008
The government announced Wednesday that the 10,000 patient ACCORD clinical trial involving diabetes treatment has been halted 18 months early due to increased risk of patients death. The trial was stopped after the Data Safety and Monitoring Board found that the rigorous treatment increased the patients’ risk of death by 25%.
It’s worth reading about this study in more detail. Please point out that these folks all had type 2 diabetes. This is NOT a concern for anyone with type 1 diabetes.
Also everyone in the trial already were at risk for cardiovascular disease. There’s a lot more useful reading at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s question and answer page (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/other/accord/q_a.htm). This was the group that was conducting the trial.
Yes this is a concern, but I don’t think it’s as dramatic as your summary suggests.
I posted about this on my blog yesterday.
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