Internal Medicine News - Digoxin poses risk in women
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Digoxin appears to raise the risk of death in stable heart failure, but only in women, according a post hoc analysis of data from a clinical trial.
This finding is based on “robust evidence” and “provides sufficient grounds for a reexamination of the use of digoxin therapy for women with heart failure,” said Saif S. Rathore, a public health specialist at Yale …
