UK drug safety incidents for Lipitor

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UK drug safety incidents for Lipitor

Postby Wisper » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:07 pm

Is this document of interest to anyone? It's a summary of all data received for Lipitor under the voluntary adverse drug incident system in the UK (the Yellow Card system). The link is below.

It shows that the 6477 reported incidents for Atorvastatin/Lipitor were made up of the following entries. More detail is in the document.

Muscle & tissue disorders 1279 20%
Nervous system disorders 848 13%
Gastrointestinal disorders 782 12%
Skin disorders 654 10%
Investigations 652 10%
General disorders 648 10%
Psychiatric disorders 442 7%
Hepatic disorders 197 3%
Respiratory disorders 157 2%
Renal & urinary disorders 107 2%
Metabolic disorders 106 2%
Reproductive & breast disorders 103 2%
Cardiac disorders 100 2%
Eye disorders 83 1%
Infections 57 1%
Vascular disorders 54 1%
Injuries 47 1%
Blood disorders 43 1%
Ear disorders 37 1%
Neoplasms 20 0%
Immune system disorders 18 0%


[url]http://tinyurl.com/y8acjec[/url] or
[url]http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/public/documents/sentineldocuments/dap_1256552483433.pdf[/url]

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