FDA finds Boehringer Ingelheim’s Pradaxa (dabigatran) safer than warfarin in most ways

Publicado por en 14 May, 2014 en Noticias | Sin comentarios

It turns out that Boehringer Ingelheim’s popular anticoagulant Pradaxa is safer than many people think. That is the finding of the FDA after taking another look at the side effects of the drug compared to the old standard warfarin and this time looking at a much larger and older patient base.

The FDA recently completed a new study in Medicare patients comparing Pradaxa to warfarin, for risk of ischemic or clot-related stroke,  bleeding in the brain, major gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, myocardial infarction (MI), and death. The new study included information from more than 134,000 Medicare patients, 65 years or older, and found that among new users of blood-thinning drugs, Pradaxa was associated with a lower risk of clot-related strokes, bleeding in the brain, and death, than warfarin. The study also found an increased risk of major gastrointestinal bleeding with use of Pradaxa as compared to warfarin. The MI risk was similar for the two drugs.

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