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more now on the food and drug administration investigation of a safety of a popular diabetes drug and a vote as early as tomorrow as to whether to remove it from the store shelves. here is cnn s doctor sanjay gupta. turn it on and let it heat up. reporter: edward darden was diagnosed with diabetes ten years ago. in 2006 he started to take avandia to control the blood sugar and then came a study in the new england journal of medicine which had the line of 43% increase in heart attacks. in 2007 as well, and now an update last month for a presentation to the fda. well, we have had evidence for a number of years that avandia increases the risk of heart attack in diabetic patients. reporter: but in 2007 this same panel voted 22-1 that the
diabetes drug avandia be pulled off the market. cnn s chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta explains why. turn it on. and let it heat up. reporter: edward darden was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. in 2006, he started take ago va taking avandia. and then the headline, a 43% increase in heart attacks for people on avandia. the dr. steven neeson wrote about it. we ve had information for several years that avandia increases the risk of heart attack inpatients. reporter: in 2007, this same panel voted, 22 to 1, that the evidence was too weak to take it off the market. one reason, a large clinical trial called record. it was funded by glaxosmithkline, the company
genie got out of the bottle and we ve been trying to put the genie back in ever since. there are big questions about avandia that the fda hopes to explore today and tomorrow. dr. sanjay gupta explains and gives us more. turn it on. and let it heat up. reporter: edward darden was diagnosed with diabetes ten years ago. in 2006, he started taking avandia to control his blood sugar. and then came a study in the new england journal of medicine, the headline, a 43% increase in heart attacks for patients on avandia. dr. steven nissen wrote that article in 2007. he s giving a presentation to the fda. we ve had documentation that avandia increases the risk of heart attack in diabetic patients. reporter: but in 2007, this same panel voted 22 to 1 that the evidence was too weak to take avandia off the market. one reason, a large clinical