CORRECTED: Bristol-Myers drug raises blood sugar risk: study
Posted on: Thursday, 2 March 2006, 19:09 CST
Please substitute "blood sugar" for "diabetes" in headline. In first paragraph, please read... Tequin can have "life threatening" side effects including low blood sugar... instead of ...Tequin can have "life threatening" side effects including serious diabetes.... Also delete in the first paragraph... which urged doctors to stop prescribing it. In the second paragraph please read... were 17 times more likely to develop high blood sugar... instead of... were 17 times more likely to develop serious diabetes.
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Bristol Myers Squibb Co. antibiotic Tequin can have "life threatening" side effects including low blood sugar, according to a Canadian study on Wednesday.
Elderly people who took Tequin were 17 times more likely to develop high blood sugar than if they took another antibiotic, and were four times more likely to be hospitalized for low blood sugar, the study found.
The study was to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 30 but it was released early because of its important public health implications, the journal said.
Source: REUTERS
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