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| | Research Activities, January 2003: Clinical Decisionmaking: Frequent users of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs may ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Frequent users of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs may need medications to prevent associated ulcers |
 | | About 1 to 2 percent of older patients taking traditional nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) regularly for 1 year develop serious gastrointestinal complications such as perforation, obstruction, or bleeding. |
 | | See "Underutilization of gastroprotective measures in patients receiving nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs," by Walter Smalley, M.D., M.P.H., C. Michael Stein, M.D., Patrick G. Arbogast, Ph.D., and others, in the August 2002 Arthritis and Rheumatism 46(8), pp. |
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