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AARON
BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening once again. If you've ever seen a
direction medication commercial, in other terms, if your television
works at all, you've
gotten to be
aware of the fast talking man, the one that tells you about the
weakness, fainting spells and dry mouth. At the present time the
Food and Drug Administration said it requirements to give him one
other thing to mention maybe. It is asking the creator of Viagra to
keep knowledgeable its warning label to indicate vision loss.
So far the numbers are little and the connection not completely
explored, but given how many public who use Viagra and drugs like it
to treat weakness of just for the thrill, nobody's taking any
probability. So, we start tonight with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICINALCORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
The concern isn't latest. It has been recognized for years that
users of Viagra could familiarity short term vision changes, seeing
green or bluish hues.
MICHAEL BERELOWITZ, VP WORLDWIDE MEDICAL, and PFIZER: The earliest
reports we were attentive of was in 2000. More cases were published
in the text in March of this year.
GUPTA: The numbers are small, extremely small; only 38 Viagra users
of the in excess of 20 million who take it have come forward with
vision troubles. There have also been four users of Cialis and one
with Levitra with related problems, the pills manufacturers say.
They say the vision failure is caused by a sort of stroke disturbing
the blood vessels of the eye. That stroke in the back of the eye
occurs when the blood vessels become choked off, ultimately causing
some of the cells in the eye to die.
Amusingly, the number of people who find the same type of stroke is
in fact about four times advanced for people who don't take Viagra,
the study's researchers say. But it's the association of timing
between somebody taking the drug and then within a short time
getting visual troubles that raised the red flags.
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