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Tuesday, April 15, 2003Of the millions of patients who took the drug over an eight-year period that ended in 2002, 288 are reported to have developed diabetes. Seventy-five of those people became severely ill, and 23 died. Some researchers see these statistics as significant because in some cases diabetes symptoms came on suddenly after patients began taking Zyprexa, eased after they went off the drug and returned when they tried the medication again. 288 out of millions is hardly proof of an association, ( click here for more on the subject), and one would hope that the FDA doesn’t use this as a reason to remove the drugs from the market. They are much more effective and safer than older drugs for schizophrenics, which have their own special toxicities at much higher rates than 288 per millions. But, a warning that monitoring blood sugar levels when someone is first placed on the drug isn’t a bad idea. It could be that the drug unmasks diabetes earlier in some people, much the way that pregnancy does. posted by Sydney on 4/15/2003 07:46:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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