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BioMedicine
Volume 7, Number 1, March 2017
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Article Number | 4 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bmdcn/2017070104 | |
Published online | 03 March 2017 |
Original article
Etodolac and the risk of acute pancreatitis
1
College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien
970, Taiwan
2
Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung
427, Taiwan
3
Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung
404, Taiwan
4
College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung
404, Taiwan
5
Department of Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung
404, Taiwan
6
Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung
404, Taiwan
* Corresponding author. Department of Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, No. 2, Yuh-Der Road, Taichung 404, Taiwan. E-mail address: wei@mail.cmuh.org.tw (S.-W. Lai).
Received:
29
August
2016
Accepted:
19
September
2016
Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the association between etodolac use and acute in Taiwan.
Design: We designed a case-control study using the database of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance.
Subjects: In all, 7577 subjects aged 20 years or older with newly diagnosed acute pancreatitis were defined as cases, and 27032 sex-matched and age-matched subjects without acute pancreatitis were defined as controls. The period considered for this study was from 1998 to 2011. For the study, never having used etodolac is defined as a subject never receiving a prescription for etodolac. Active use of etodolac is defined as a subject receiving at least 1 prescription for etodolac within 7 days of the date of their being diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. Non-active use of etodolac is defined as a subject not receiving a prescription for etodolac within 7 days but receiving at least 1 prescription for etodolac ≥ 8 days before the date of their being diagnosed with acute pancreatitis.
Main outcome measure: The association between etodolac use and acute pancreatitis was estimated by using the multivariable unconditional logistic regression model.
Results: After correcting for covariates, the adjusted odds ratio of acute pancreatitis was 3.78 for subjects with active use of etodolac (95% confidence interval 1.11, 12.9), compared with subjects who never used etodolac. The adjusted odds ratio decreased to 1.18 for subjects with non-active use of etodolac (95% confidence interval 0.38, 3.67), but that was without statistical significance.
Conclusion: There could be an association between active use of etodolac and acute pancreatitis. Clinicians should take into account the possibility of etodolac-associated acute pancreatitis when patients currently using etodolac present with acute pancreatitis with an unknown cause.
Key words: Acute pancreatitis / Etodolac
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