Epidemiology of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs consumption in Spain. The MCC-Spain study

• Main Authors: Inés Gómez-Acebo (Author), Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos (Author), María de Pedro (Author), Beatriz Pérez-Gómez (Author), Gemma Castaño-Vinyals (Author), Tania Fernández-Villa (Author), Camilo Palazuelos-Calderón (Author), Pilar Amiano (Author), Jaione Etxeberria (Author), Yolanda Benavente (Author), Guillermo Fernández-Tardón (Author), Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido (Author), Rocío Capelo (Author), Rosana Peiró (Author), Rafael Marcos-Gragera (Author), José M. Huerta (Author), Adonina Tardón (Author), Aurelio Barricarte (Author), Jone-Miren Altzibar (Author), Jessica Alonso-Molero (Author), Verónica Dávila-Batista (Author), Nuria Aragonés (Author), Marina Pollán (Author), Manolis Kogevinas (Author), Javier Llorca (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used despite their risk of gastrointestinal bleeding or cardiovascular events. We report the profile of people taking NSAIDs in Spain, and we include demographic factors, health-related behaviours and cardiovascular diseas...