Women are started on a lower daily dose of metoprolol than men irrespective of dose recommendations: A potential source of confounding by contraindication in pharmacoepidemiology

PURPOSE: Current guidelines have no sex‐specific dosage advice for metoprolol. To evaluate whether women and men are prescribed the same dose a cohort analysis was performed in the population‐based Rotterdam Study (RS). Results were replicated in the Integrated Primary Care Information (IPCI) databa...

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Autores principales: Hendriksen, Linda C., Verhamme, Katia M. C., Van der Linden, Paul D., Stricker, Bruno H., Visser, Loes E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33675258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pds.5220

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33675258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pds.5220

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