A federal scientist?s warning Monday that the diabetes drug Avandia could increase blood pressure and cause heart attacks has some doctors putting the pills on hold.
“I don?t want to put new people on it until I know where things stand,” said Dr. Philip A. Levin, endocrinologist with Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. “The drug has been effective at lowering blood sugars, and it has caused fluid retention that made us caution about using it in any patient with a heart condition, because we don?t want to tip anyone over the edge.”
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