Dipyrone as a Cause of Drug Rashes: An Epidemiologic Study
- 1 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 167-170
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/2.2.167
Abstract
In a prospective epidemiologic study, drug rashes were recorded more commonly in hospitalized medical patients in Israel than in North America. Detailed analysis of the Israeli data revealed that the risk of developing a rash is higher in dipyrone recipients than in non-recipients. The estimated risk of rahes attributable to the drug was 2.4 per cent, and about two-thirds of dipyrone rashes were mistakenly attributed to other drugs. Dipyrone, in the present series, was used only in Israel. When dipyrone recipients were excluded, the standardized rash rates in Israel and North America were similar.Keywords
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