Diabetes drugs must go through longer studies to make it certain that they are free from unexpected heart risks; this has been recommended by a government panel. It may cost pharmaceutical companies millions but it is protective for the patients to avoid unexpected heart risks.
On Wednesday, with a 14-2 voting, the advisers of the Food and Drug Administration recommended that all new diabetes drugs must have undergone longer studies to make it certain that they didn’t boost cardiovascular problems risks.
The diabetes experts, cardiologists and statisticians opined for less than a year after the FDA was badly criticized regarding managing the issue of GlaxoSmithKline’s commonly used pill. The drug was recommended in 1999 but FDA didn’t warn about possible heart risks till last November.
Many members of the panel suggested that drug companies should start safety tests before submitting any drug to the FDA, and they also complete the studies after the availability of the drugs in the market. The testing would cost tens of millions of dollars to the drug manufactures and will take a time of five to seven years to complete.
According to Dr. Eric Felner who is a pediatric specialist at Emroy University School of Medicine, “If such amount of time is spent for testing, it will be certainly preventing some drugs that may prove better than the already available drugs.”
It is not essential for FDA to follow the advice of the panel but it often does. Almost 24 million Americans are the victim of Type 2 diabetes that can cause kidney failure, blindness and heart disease.
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Gone are the days when only a particular age of people was suffering from diabetes. Today even children and surprisingly even infants are identified with high blood sugar disease. Several research studies indicate that at least seventeen in every hundred thousand children are suffering from diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic syndrome that is characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood sugar. Diabetes is caused by inherited and/or acquired deficiency in production of insulin by the pancreas, or by the ineffectiveness of the insulin produced. Such a deficiency results in increased concentrations of glucose in the blood. The characteristic symptoms of diabetes are excessive urine production, excessive thirst and increased fluid intake and sometimes even blurred vision.
Diabetes is a serious disease that affects an increasingly large number of people nowadays. There are numerous people officially registered at diabetes centers from all over the world. The effects of this disease are, however of the most diverse and they may vary from minor glycemia problems to important glycemia dysfunctions that can also lead to the death of the patient in the most grave cases. There are numerous treatments for this disease but this, however, has not reduced the overall number of people affected by diabetes. Researchers are still trying to prevent its causes but most of the times people get diabetes caused by stress and by a disordered rhythm of life. And this is very difficult to control by medical methods.