Rheumatology Advance Access published online on February 19, 2007
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel429
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Editorial |
Do case control studies on coxibs tell us anything new?
Correspondence to:
Dr Brune. E-mail: Kay.Brune@pharmakologie.med.uni-erlangen.de
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
If one reads the voluminous manuscript by Rahme and Nedjar (this issue) one getsat the first glancethe impression that this is all known:
- Paracetamol and celecoxib exert the least damaging effect on the GI-tract and the cardiovascular system.
- Neither compound goes along with an increased cardiovascular risk in patients not receiving low dose aspirin.
- Low dose aspirin increases the GI-toxicity
. . . [Full Text of this Article]