Rezulin and Urine discoloration - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Urine discoloration is found among people who take Rezulin, especially for people who are female, 60+ old, have been taking the drug for 1 - 6 months.
The phase IV clinical study analyzes which people take Rezulin and have Urine discoloration. It is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 8,761 people who have side effects when taking Rezulin from the FDA, and is updated regularly. You can use the study as a second opinion to make health care decisions.
Phase IV trials are used to detect adverse drug outcomes and monitor drug effectiveness in the real world. With medical big data and AI algorithms, eHealthMe is running millions of phase IV trials and makes the results available to the public. Our original studies have been referenced on 600+ medical publications including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature.
8,761 people reported to have side effects when taking Rezulin.
Among them, 248 people (2.83%) have Urine discoloration.
What is Rezulin?
Rezulin has active ingredients of troglitazone. eHealthMe is studying from 8,764 Rezulin users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
What is Urine discoloration?
Urine discoloration is found to be associated with 631 drugs and 66 conditions by eHealthMe.
Number of Rezulin and Urine discoloration reports submitted per year:

Time on Rezulin when people have Urine discoloration *:
Gender of people who have Urine discoloration when taking Rezulin*:
Age of people who have Urine discoloration when taking Rezulin *:
Common drugs people take besides Rezulin *:
Common side effects people have besides Urine discoloration *:
Common conditions people have *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Rezulin and have Urine discoloration?
Check whether Urine discoloration is associated with a drug or a conditionHow to use the study?
You can discuss the study with your doctor, to ensure that all drug risks and benefits are fully discussed and understood.
Related studies
How severe was Urine discoloration and when was it recovered:
Expand to all the drugs that have ingredients of troglitazone:
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Rezulin:
- Rezulin (8,764 reports)
Common Rezulin side effects:
- Abdominal distension: 289 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 267 reports
- Alanine aminotransferase increased: 1,141 reports
- Ammonia increased: 112 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 222 reports
- Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable): 141 reports
- Anorexia (eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight): 164 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 257 reports
- Ascites (accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity): 396 reports
- Aspartate aminotransferase increased: 1,055 reports
- Back pain: 207 reports
- Blood albumin decreased: 194 reports
- Blood alkaline phosphatase nos increased: 551 reports
- Blood bilirubin increased: 860 reports
- Blood creatinine increased: 200 reports
- Blood glucose increased: 267 reports
- Blood lactate dehydrogenase increased: 367 reports
- Blood urea increased: 225 reports
- Cardiac arrest: 119 reports
- Cardiac disorder: 211 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 482 reports
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin): 137 reports
- Chest pain: 316 reports
- Confusion: 199 reports
- Constipation: 163 reports
- Cough: 171 reports
- Death: 109 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 156 reports
- Depression: 196 reports
- Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin resulting from direct irritation by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it): 171 reports
- Diabetes mellitus inadequate control: 246 reports
- Difficulty in walking: 108 reports
- Distress: 108 reports
- Drug ineffective: 215 reports
- Fainting (loss of consciousness and postural tone): 113 reports
- Fall: 219 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 756 reports
- Fatty liver: 192 reports
- Fever: 291 reports
- Fluid retention (an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the blood): 123 reports
- Gallstones (stone formation by bile component): 218 reports
- Gamma-glutamyltransferase increased: 468 reports
- Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract): 147 reports
- Haematocrit decreased: 199 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 269 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 203 reports
- Heart attack: 285 reports
- Heart palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing): 124 reports
- Hepatic encephalopathy (spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities in patients with liver failure): 173 reports
- Hepatic failure (liver failure): 765 reports
- Hepatic necrosis (large portions of liver die off due to severe liver disease): 209 reports
- Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver): 523 reports
- Hepatocellular damage (liver damage): 773 reports
- Hepatomegaly (abnormal enlargement of the liver): 238 reports
- Hepatotoxicity (chemical-driven liver damage): 132 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 205 reports
- Hyperkalemia (damage to or disease of the kidney): 102 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 113 reports
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar): 261 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 199 reports
- Injury: 877 reports
- International normalised ratio increased: 106 reports
- Itching: 187 reports
- Joint pain: 192 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 413 reports
- Mental impairment (a condition affecting the body, perhaps through sight or hearing loss, a mobility difficulty or a health condition): 118 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 139 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 773 reports
- Oedema lower limb (fluid collection in tissue of lower leg): 470 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 139 reports
- Pain in limb: 151 reports
- Pleural effusion (water on the lungs): 189 reports
- Pneumonia: 127 reports
- Portal hypertension (increase in the blood pressure within a system of veins called the portal venous system): 118 reports
- Pulmonary oedema (fluid accumulation in the lungs): 110 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 155 reports
- Splenomegaly (enlargement of spleen): 131 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 284 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 134 reports
- Unevaluable reaction: 159 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 162 reports
- Urine discoloration: 248 reports
- Weakness: 610 reports
- Weight decreased: 269 reports
- Weight increased: 646 reports
Browse all side effects of Rezulin:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zUrine discoloration treatments and more:
- Urine discoloration (2,989 reports)
COVID vaccines that are related to Urine discoloration:
- Urine discoloration in Moderna COVID Vaccine
- Urine discoloration in Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine
- Urine discoloration in Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine
Common drugs associated with Urine discoloration:
All the drugs that are associated with Urine discoloration:
- Urine discoloration (631 drugs)
All the conditions that are associated with Urine discoloration:
- Urine discoloration (66 conditions)
How the study uses the data?
The study uses data from the FDA. It is based on troglitazone (the active ingredients of Rezulin) and Rezulin (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered. Dosage of drugs is not considered in the study.
Who is eHealthMe?
With medical big data and proven AI algorithms, eHealthMe provides a platform for everyone to run phase IV clinical trials. We study millions of patients and 5,000 more each day. Results of our real-world drug study have been referenced on 600+ medical publications, including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature. Our analysis results are available to researchers, health care professionals, patients (testimonials), and software developers (open API).
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