Sabeen Fatima Rizvi, Hareem Nawaz, Aqsa Fatima.
The Prevalence of Drug Induced Gastritis among patients with ADR.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(2):967-9.

Background: Gastritis is the inflammation or swelling in the stomach lining which cause severe and nagging pain. In USA DIG is the utmost diagnosed disease due to ADR, and thiscan be fatal as well. Over a 35 million people consumes drug daily and about 25% of which may develop gastritis. NSAIDS are among those medicines that can cause gastric mucosal damage that results NSAID induced gastritis. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of DIG among patients with ADR. Methods: This was a retrospective study where the 100 patients record was retrieved for two years. The exclusion criteria includes all patients with non compliance, over dosage, medication error, poisoning, natural product or homeopathic products whereas all the patients with drug induce d diseases reported in hospital out patient department (OPD) regardless of duration, severity and type was included in the study Results: This study contains a total of 100 patients. The mean age of patient was 31.2 +- 8.4. In the study we observed 34% of the patients with ADR due to the drug induced diseases, and the out of which was Gastritis (9%), diarrhea (6%), anemia (5%), hypotension (3%), hepatic dysfunction (3%) where as 74% were other disease. Conclusions: The prevalence of DIG is high in local population and it is due to the anticoagulant treatment like NSIAD and acetylsalicylic acid.

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