Osteoporosis Drugs Could Increase Chance of Heart Trouble

Findings from a new medical study suggest that drugs used to treat the bone disease osteoporosis could increase a person's risk of suffering from a condition which makes the heart beat irregularly.

The drugs, alendronate and zoledronic acid, are taken to increase the bone density of patients suffering from osteoporosis as well as slowing down the general onset of the disease, reports the Telegraph.

Those who took part in the study and took both drugs were twice as likely to suffer from a condition know as atrial fibrillation as those in the trial who took placebos.

Dr Jennifer Miranda, from the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, carried out the study and said that the findings meant that patients with increased risk factors for the heart conditions should have their medicine more cautiously chosen.

Osteoporosis sufferers have a greater risk of fracture and according to the National Osteoporosis site broken wrists can be the first sign you may have the disease.