Olav Spigset

TL;DR: Haemorrhages were seen in a majority of the FADRs; antithrombotic agents or NSAIDs were implicated in most of these events; preventive measures should be taken to reduce the number of deaths caused by drugs.

TL;DR: The majority of women in Europe, North America, South America and Australia used at least one medication during pregnancy, and there was a substantial inter-region variability in the types of medication used.

TL;DR: The NORGEP criteria may serve as rules of thumb for general practitioners related to their prescribing practice for elderly patients, and as a tool for evaluating the quality of GPs’ prescribing in settings where access to clinical information for individual patients is limited, e.g. in prescription databases and quality improvement interventions.

TL;DR: Based on sales data and spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions in Sweden, the risk of agranulocytosis with dipyrone seems to be considerably higher than the previously estimated risks.

TL;DR: Subjects treated with clozapine were more often classified as having type 2 diabetes mellitus or IGT compared with subjects in the control group, whereas the 2 groups did not differ with respect to body weight, body mass index, or prevalence of Diabetes mellitus in first-degree relatives.