Non-sedating antihistamine drugs and cardiac arrhythmias - biased risk estimates from spontaneous reporting systems?
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Non-sedating antihistamine drugs and cardiac arrhythmias -- biased risk estimates from spontaneous reporting systems?
AIMS This study used spontaneous reports of adverse events to estimate the risk for developing cardiac arrhythmias due to the systemic use of non-sedating antihistamine drugs and compared the risk estimate before and after the regulatory action to recall the over-the-counter status of some of these drugs. METHODS All suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reported until July 1999 to the Neth...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0306-5251
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2125.2002.01569.x