Common painkillers linked to heart attack and strokes
Posted Jan 12, 2011 7:37 am.
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A new report shows that taking common painkillers like Ibuprofen can increase your risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Swiss scientists analyzed information from 31 trials involving more than 116-thousand patients taking drugs including Naproxen, Ibuprofen, Pfizer’s Celebrex, or celecoxib, Merck’s Arcoxia, or etoricoxib, Merck’s Vioxx, or rofecoxib, Novartis’ Prexige, or lumiracoxib, or a placebo, to try to give an estimate of the heart risks of such medicines.
While the likelihood of cardiovascular problems was low, researchers found that the drugs did pose an important risk.
In particular, Ibuprofen was associated with more than three times the risk of stroke.
For more details on the study and other drugs included in it, you can go to
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B00720110112
