06.11.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Signal of potentially protective drug–drug interactions from spontaneous reporting systems: proceed with caution
verfasst von:
Ippazio Cosimo Antonazzo, Elisabetta Poluzzi, Emanuele Forcesi, Francesco Salvo, Antoine Pariente, Giulio Marchesini, Fabrizio De Ponti, Emanuel Raschi
Erschienen in:
Acta Diabetologica
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
We do appreciate the letter by Kuss and Rathmann [
1], who re-examined our data with multiplicative and additive models to assess the likelihood of an interaction between DPP4 inhibitors and statins [
2]. They calculated confidence intervals to assess the statistical significance of our findings and conclude that a statistically significant negative interaction exists, thus claiming a protective effect of the drug–drug combination on the risk of myopathy. …