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- Use of nonaspirin NSAID drugs during pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous abortion.Show More
Dear editor: We found the study by Nakhai-Pour et al. entitled "Use of nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs during pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous abortion" very interesting. However, we would like to clarify a number of points made in the paper. First of all, I noticed that the control group showed high exposure rate to antiemetic agents(cases 3.4%, controls 15.2% p<0.0001). It is well- known that n...
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Dear Editor,
We would like to thank Dr Clark and colleagues for their letter on our paper published in CMAJ (1), and we thank CMAJ for giving us the opportunity to answer. We disagree with the majority of what Clark et al. have put forward but we agree that prescription medications do not necessarily indicate that women take their medications as was mentioned in our discussion section. However, our study defined...
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This is a very interesting result from a study of miscarriages. I am not in the medical field, but I think a lot, i am very science oriented. I just had a thought about a link between Autism and Ibuprofen. Everyone in the U.S. tries to blame our milk or vaccines on the increase of Autism, but has anyone thought of Ibuprofen, it has gained popularity in the last 20-25 years and so has Autism.
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Dear Sir
We read with interest Nakhai-Pour et al 's paper(1) reporting a possible increase of risk of spontaneous abortion associated with any type or dose of non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). This finding supports earlier work by Nielsen et al (2) but as both used a combination of population-based prescription drug registries and pregnancy outcome databases, this similar finding is not su...
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