In summary, rosiglitazone may help control diabetes, but its serious impact on heart health makes it a risky choice. The Yale ...

He highlights that it isn't the 'majority' of diabetes medications, but certain medications like Avandia (rosiglitazone) are linked to heart failure and can affect your heart long term.

In summary, the use of thiazolidinediones is appropriate in patients without heart failure who are intolerant to other oral antidiabetic agents. Pioglitazone is more favorable than rosiglitazone ...

Objective: Published reports suggest that pioglitazone and rosiglitazone have different effects on lipids in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, these previous studies were either ...