Quite a few epidemiological studies including meta‐analyses indicate that prostate
inflammation is associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. The cause of inflammation …

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of the efficacy
results from 3 placebo-controlled multicenter clinical trials of slow-release mesalamine …

The association between use of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs) and the risk of prostate cancer remains controversial despite many observational …

All drugs used for malaria prophylaxis have common adverse effects, in addition to rare
and/or severe adverse effects. For many of the drugs in current use, the common adverse …

In this issue of CLINICAL GASTROEN-TEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY, Hanauer and
Stromberg provide us with some interesting old data regarding the efficacy of 5-ASA …

Purpose Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including aspirin, have emerged
as the potential chemopreventive agents for a number of cancer types, however, previous …

Objective: Recent studies have shown inconsistent results on the risk of cancer in
hypertensive patients using calcium channel blockers (CCBs) and angiotensin-converting …

Methodological issues in using prescription and other databases in pharmacoepidemiology
Page 1 Norwegian Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 11 (1): 13-18 13 Methodological issues in …

Three questions related to cancer and blood pressure are discussed.(i) Is cancer related in
some way to hypertension, or to blood pressure? Several studies show a relation of blood …

Martin et al 1 suggest that caution should be exercised when prescribing long acting oral β
agonists to patients at risk of cardiac failure, based on results from a prescription event …