AtlantaBlue
01-12-2005, 01:56 AM
Has anyone read he following study? What are we to do now?
NSAIDS Damage the Small Intestine According to a New Study
Via ReutersHealth: More than 70 percent of patients who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (including ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen) for more than three months suffered damage to their small intestines, according to a new study from the Baylor College of Mediciine in Houston.:
The study is yet another blow to patients trying to find ways to treat arthritis pain, after reports that the most advanced drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, can raise the risk of heart death.
Dr. David Y. Graham of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and colleagues studied 21 patients taking a range of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS. They compared them to 20 patients taking acetaminophen, an unrelated painkiller, or nothing.
"Small-bowel injury was seen in 71 percent of NSAID users compared with 10 percent of controls," they wrote in Monday's issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
NSAIDS Damage the Small Intestine According to a New Study
Via ReutersHealth: More than 70 percent of patients who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (including ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen) for more than three months suffered damage to their small intestines, according to a new study from the Baylor College of Mediciine in Houston.:
The study is yet another blow to patients trying to find ways to treat arthritis pain, after reports that the most advanced drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, can raise the risk of heart death.
Dr. David Y. Graham of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and colleagues studied 21 patients taking a range of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS. They compared them to 20 patients taking acetaminophen, an unrelated painkiller, or nothing.
"Small-bowel injury was seen in 71 percent of NSAID users compared with 10 percent of controls," they wrote in Monday's issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.