Aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and epistaxis. A regional record linkage case control study
| Autor: | Thomas M. MacDonald, J. M. M. Evans, H. L. Tay, AD McMahon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Population Risk Assessment Medical Records 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective Studies Medical prescription education Prospective cohort study Aged Aged 80 and over Aspirin education.field_of_study business.industry Medical record Anti-Inflammatory Agents Non-Steroidal Case-control study General Medicine Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Hospitalization Epistaxis Otorhinolaryngology Anesthesia Relative risk Case-Control Studies Female business Record linkage medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology. 107(8) |
| ISSN: | 0003-4894 |
| Popis: | To assess the relationship between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and spontaneous epistaxis in adults over 50 years old, a case control study was carried out by using a record linkage database for the population of Tayside, Scotland, which included 319,465 people. The study group consisted of 326 patients who were hospitalized with epistaxis between May 1989 and December 1992, but who had not previously been hospitalized with this diagnosis. Six community controls and 4 hospital controls, matched for age and sex to each case, were used. Previous exposure to prescribed aspirin and other NSAIDs was investigated. There was a significant association between aspirin exposure and epistaxis when either community or hospital controls were used (p |
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