Healthy Journey » anemia http://www.healthy-journey.com Healthy Living, Nutrition, Fitness, Recipes for Weightloss Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:14:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Anemia Drug May Raise Stroke Risk in Kidney Patients http://www.healthy-journey.com/anemia-drug-may-raise-stroke-risk-in-kidney-patients/ http://www.healthy-journey.com/anemia-drug-may-raise-stroke-risk-in-kidney-patients/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:00:28 +0000 editor http://www.healthy-journey.com/?p=479 A drug designed to fight appears to double the risk of in patients with diabetes and disease without substantially improving their quality of life, a new study finds.

Darbepoetin alfa, marketed as Aranesp and known as an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA), is often prescribed for diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease and mild anemia.

“The benefits we assumed we would have by treating anemia were less striking and the risks were more striking,” said lead researcher Dr. Marc A. Pfeffer, a professor of medicine in the cardiovascular division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. (...)

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