Dilemmas about instructions for administering drugs and indications for their use: is there negative effect of pharmaceutical industry?

Clin Transl Med

Department of Medical Sciences, The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bistrik 7, 71000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Published: January 2020

Instructions for administering some drugs and indications for their use raise certain dilemmas and controversies questioning the appropriateness of the treatment in this way. In this article, some controversies regarding the prescribing of statins in patients whose blood cholesterol level is normal and the use of anticoagulants in the elderly patients without blood clots prior to the treatment are described. Also, it is discussed about some controversies regarding the use of the insulin analogues in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6992826PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40169-020-0267-0DOI Listing

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