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As many as one in every 50 patients taking Avandia or Actos, for type II diabetes treatment will be hospitalized for heart failure. Use of these two drugs in the UK has doubled over the past three years. In the UK alone 1.8 million prescriptions were written. The class of drugs, they say in the journal Diabetes Care, doubles the risk of heart failure, and even those with no history of heart...

Wake Forest University School of Medicine has conducted a study that shows two drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes increases the risk of heart failure. The two drugs, Avandia and Actos, were known to increase the risk of heart problems, but it was only recently that studies found just how dangerous these drugs can be.The current warning labels on the drugs advise patients with severe cases of...