Varenicline: no link with cardiovascular events found in meta-analysis

Varenicline (Champix) is a partial agonist to nicotine receptors, and is approved for smoking cessation therapy. However, the FDA has raised concern about a possible increase in the incidence of cardiovascular events of patients taking the drug in randomised trials. In this meta-analysis, Prochaska et al. looked at 22 randomised controlled trials of current tobacco […]

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