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Muscle toxicity with statinsKarin Hedenmalm
Clinical Trial Unit, Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 19:223-31. 2010..Statins rarely cause serious muscle toxicity and rhabdomyolysis. The aim of our investigation was to identify and quantify potential risk factors for statin-induced rhabdomyolysis...
[Cardiovascular side-effects of triptanes in migraine exist but are rare. 5-HT receptor mediated extracranial vasoconstriction is the most common cause]K Hedenmalm
Klinisk farmakologi, biverkningssektionen, Läkemedelsverket, Uppsala
Lakartidningen 97:3078-84. 2000..Stroke, a known complication to migraine, has also been reported in patients treated with triptans, but available data do not suggest that triptans, when correctly used, greatly increase the risk...
The conscientious judgement of a DSMB--statistical stopping rules re-examinedKarin Hedenmalm
Clinical Trial Unit, Medical Products Agency, Box 26, 751 03, Uppsala, Sweden
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 64:69-72. 2008..A number of other studies in which complex decisions were made by DSMBs are also reviewed...
Alopecia associated with treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)Karin Hedenmalm
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:719-25. 2006..To study the association between alopecia and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) by estimating reporting rates and by making association comparisons within databases of adverse drug reactions (ADRs)...
Risk factors for extrapyramidal symptoms during treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, including cytochrome P-450 enzyme, and serotonin and dopamine transporter and receptor polymorphismsKarin Hedenmalm
Clinical Trial Unit, Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
J Clin Psychopharmacol 26:192-7. 2006..This study aimed to investigate the potential risk factors for EPS associated with SSRIs including polymorphisms of cytochrome P-450 isoenzymes, and serotonin and dopamine transporters and receptors...
Fatal venous thromboembolism associated with different combined oral contraceptives: a study of incidences and potential biases in spontaneous reportingKarin Hedenmalm
Pharmacovigilance Unit and Clinical Trial Unit, Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
Drug Saf 28:907-16. 2005..A further aim is to compare the characteristics of reported and not reported cases...
Increased liability of tramadol-warfarin interaction in individuals with mutations in the cytochrome P450 2D6 geneKarin Hedenmalm
Drug Epidemiology Unit, Medical Products Agency, 75103 Uppsala, Sweden
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 60:369-72. 2004..This study aimed to investigate the importance of cytochrome P(450) enzymes for the reported interaction between tramadol and warfarin...
Prematurely ended phase III trials in Sweden during the years 2002-2008Karin Hedenmalm
Clinical Trial Unit, Medical Products Agency, P O Box 26, 751 03, Uppsala, Sweden
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 67:869-75. 2011..An additional aim was to identify risk factors for a premature ending...
Pulmonary embolism associated with combined oral contraceptives: reporting incidences and potential risk factors for a fatal outcomeKarin Hedenmalm
Pharmacovigilance Unit, Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 83:576-85. 2004..This study aimed to identify such risk factors, and to calculate the reporting rates of fatal and non-fatal PE...
Agranulocytosis and other blood dyscrasias associated with dipyrone (metamizole)Karin Hedenmalm
Drug Epidemiology Unit, Medical Products Agency, Box 26, 751 02 Uppsala, Sweden
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 58:265-74. 2002..The aim of the study was to describe the pattern of blood dyscrasias associated with dipyrone, identify possible risk factors and calculate the incidence of agranulocytosis associated with dipyrone...
Glucose intolerance with atypical antipsychoticsKarin Hedenmalm
Drug Epidemiology Unit, Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
Drug Saf 25:1107-16. 2002..Early studies have also suggested an association between use of conventional antipsychotics and the development of glucose intolerance...
[Reporting of side-effects--a system in need of improvement. Reporting of a physician questionnaire]Ylva Ekbom
Biverkningsenheten, Läkemedelsverket, Uppsala
Lakartidningen 99:3290-5. 2002..The majority of the physicians who had a computer at work stated that they would like to access the reporting form electronically...
Antipsychotics associated with pulmonary embolism in a Swedish medicolegal autopsy seriesAnna K Jönsson
Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 23:263-8. 2008..Pulmonary embolism was overrepresented among medicolegal autopsy cases identified as users of low-potency first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics...
[Relatively good safety in Swedish phase I trials. A survey of studies reported to the Medical Products Agency during 3 years]Anna Glazer
, Uppsala
Lakartidningen 105:2482-4. 2008
Mortality from venous thromboembolism in young Swedish women and its relation to pregnancy and use of oral contraceptives--an approach to specifying ratesEva Samuelsson
Division of Family Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Eur J Epidemiol 20:509-16. 2005....
[Axillary vein thrombosis in a young woman with a contraceptive ring. Prothrombin gene mutation a possible connection]Eva Samuelsson
, Ume
Lakartidningen 104:32-4. 2007
[A nation-wide survey: striking differences in the diagnostic procedures relating to thrombosis]Ola Björgell
Röntgendiagnostiska avdelningen, Universitetssjukhuset MAS, Malmo
Lakartidningen 99:4469-71. 2002..The interpretation of nonfiling of contrast medium in vein segments on phlebography varied from DVT to no DVT. Most of the phlebographies were performed with digital X-ray technique...
