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Acute and clinically relevant drug‐induced liver injury: a population based case‐control study
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Aims To provide quantitative information about the absolute and relative risks of acute and clinically relevant drug‐induced liver injury. Methods We performed a population‐based case‐control study using the UK‐based General Practice Research Database as the source of information. A total of 1636792 persons subjects aged 5–75 years old registered in the database from 1 January, 1994 to 31 December, 1999 were followed‐up for a total of 5404705 person‐years. Cases were identified by an exhaustive computer search, then reviewed manually and finally validated against the clinical records. Only idiopathic cases serious enough to be referred to hospital or a consultant were selected. A total of 5000 controls were randomly sampled from the person‐time of study cohort. Current users were defined if a prescription ended within 15 days of the index date, and nonusers if there was no prescription before the index date. Results One hundred and twenty‐eight patients were considered as valid cases, being the crude incidence rate of 2.4 (95% confidence interval: 2.0, 2.8) per 100 000 person‐years. The strongest associations were found with chlorpromazine (adjusted odds ratio (AOR); 95% CI = 416; 45, 3840), amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (AOR = 94.8; 27.8, 323), flucloxacillin (AOR = 17.7; 4.4, 71.0), macrolides (AOR = 6.9; 2.3, 21.0), tetracyclines (AOR = 6.2; 2.4, 15.8); metoclopramide (AOR = 6.2; 1.8, 21.3); chlorpheniramine (AOR = 9.6; 1.9, 49.7); betahistine (AOR = 15.3; 2.9, 80.7); sulphasalazine (AOR = 25.5; 6.0, 109); azathioprine (AOR = 10.5; 1.4, 76.4), diclofenac (AOR = 4.1; 1.9, 8.8) and antiepileptics (AOR = 5.1; 1.9, 13.7). A dose‐effect was apparent for diclofenac, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and flucloxacillin. The combination of two or more hepatotoxic drugs increased the risk by a factor of 6. The highest crude incidence rates were found for chlorpromazine, azathioprine, and sulfasalazine (about 1 per 1000 users). Conclusions Idiopathic, acute and clinically relevant liver injury, which has the use of drugs as the most probable aetiology, is a rare event in the general population. The relative risks of 40 drugs/therapeutic classes are provided, along with the crude incidence rates for 15 of them where a statistical association was found.
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- De Abajo, F. J., Montero, D., Madurga, M., & Rodríguez, L. A. G.
- Venue
- British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-06-04
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 71-80
- ISSN
- 0306-5251 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2125
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- References
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- FWCI
- 5.78
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- en
- Open access
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