Open AccessThe Relationship of Drug Therapy to Aplastic Anemia in Pakistan: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study
Author(s) -
Muhammad Asif Syed,
Aneela Rahman,
Muhammad Nadeem Shah Syed,
Naveed Masood
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
therapeutics and clinical risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1178-203X
pISSN - 1176-6336
DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s325742
Subject(s) - medicine , aplastic anemia , incidence (geometry) , univariate analysis , anemia , gastroenterology , pediatrics , multivariate analysis , bone marrow , physics , optics
Drug-induced aplastic anemia has long been a menacing outcome of modern pharmacotherapy. The incidence of idiosyncratic, drug-induced aplastic anemia varies depending on the genetic susceptibility and the associated drug. Only scarce studies have explained the epidemiology and actual incidence of this reaction.