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Possible Role of Laxatives in Analgesic Nephropathy
- Publication Year :
- 1974
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Abstract
- Eight out of ten of patients with analgesic nephropathy were regular and usually heavy laxative takers compared with 12 out of 200 controls from the general population and four out of 70 patients attending a renal clinic. The finding that regular laxative taking was greatly increased in patients with analgesic nephropathy suggests that this condition may often be due to the combined abuse of both laxatives and analgesics. In a series of 40 patients with rheumatoid arthritis all were found to have normal renal function and no patient took laxatives regularly. This finding would explain why analgesic nephropathy is so uncommon in patients with rheumatoid arthritis despite the fact that they are regular and heavy analgesic takers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Substance-Related Disorders
medicine.medical_treatment
Population
Analgesic
Laxative
Cathartic
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
education
General Environmental Science
Aged
Aspirin
education.field_of_study
Analgesics
business.industry
Cathartics
Codeine
Senna Extract
General Engineering
Phenacetin
General Medicine
Papers and Originals
Middle Aged
Analgesic nephropathy
medicine.disease
Surgery
Drug Combinations
Paraffin
Rheumatoid arthritis
Creatinine
Potassium
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Kidney Diseases
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c1c48a2e7eb9705809a4d907e8c0edde