Objective: To assess whether use of oral glucocorticoids is associated with cardiovascular
and cerebrovascular morbidity. Design and setting: Nested case–control study within a …

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between antipsychotic drug use and risk of
pneumonia in elderly people. DESIGN: A nested case‐control analysis. SETTING: Data …

Objective: To study the association between use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and risk of
fractures. Methods: The authors obtained data from the General Practice Research …

Purpose: To compare the incidence of various fractures in a cohort of patients with epilepsy
with a reference cohort of patients not having epilepsy. Methods: Patients were included in …

Purpose Drug utilization studies have applied different methods to various data types to
describe medication use, which hampers comparisons across populations. The aim of this …

Purpose Studies on drug utilization usually do not allow direct cross‐national comparisons
because of differences in the respective applied methods. This study aimed to compare time …

Background Treatment with vitamin K antagonists (coumarins) is associated with an
increased risk of bleeding. Because use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is …

Background Microscopic colitis (MC) is a chronic bowel disorder characterised by watery
diarrhoea. Nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAID s), proton pump inhibitors (PPI s) …

OBJECTIVES: When constructing drug treatment episodes using drug-dispensing
databases, duration and the number of prescriptions belonging to a single treatment …

Purpose: To assess the association between exposure to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and the
occurrence of aplastic anemia. Methods: A retrospective case–control study was conducted …