Avandia may raise osteoporosis risk

Another perk from being fat and with Type II diabetes. Brittle bones.

"The popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia may increase bone thinning, a discovery that could help explain why diabetics can have an increased risk of fractures..

The assumption had been that more brittle bones in diabetics were the result of a reduced bone-building activity, not increased bone removal.

'Considering the widespread use of these drugs and the known action in people it is surprising that such a key observation had been missed,' he said."

Oops.

And it gets better.

You can have heart failure, too.

"Avandia recently was labeled with warnings about the risk of heart failure in some patients."

Eat hearty.