Reporting
of adverse drug reactions in pets is rarely done by veterinarians or pet owners, so finding information on NSAID reactions is difficult.
In a study of 1000 adult patients with unplanned admission to a tertiary hospital in Singapore, the
prevalence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) at the time of admission was 12.4 percent, and the prevalence of ADRs causing admission to the hospital was 8.1 percent.
It is expected that pharmacogenomics is most likely cost - effective, since it reduces the
incidence of adverse drug reactions, which can reciprocally reduce healthcare expenditure at the national level.
«Considering the hundreds of millions of annual cardiovascular drug prescriptions, the
frequency of adverse drug reactions, and the variable levels of drug response, the impact of this knowledge is potentially prodigious.»
They opted for higher doses of pramlintide (240 ug TID [three times per day]-RRB- because in dose - escalation studies, the incidence and
severity of adverse drug reactions was consistently low at all doses tested.
For example, the odds
of an adverse drug reaction in women is 50 percent greater than in men, women are more likely to be hospitalized because of an adverse drug reaction, and 80 percent of the drugs removed from the market by the FDA were because of undesirable adverse effects in women.»
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, 65 %
of adverse drug reactions and 48 % of all reported deaths resulting from drug reactions are caused by heartworm preventative.