Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in elderly people. Gastrointestinal bleeding is common.
1995
EDITOR,--In their editorial on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and elderly patients D N Bateman and J G Kennedy erroneously quote an incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding of 210 cases per million people over 60 compared with 35 per million under 60,1 from a study carried out in our department.2 In fact, the annual incidences in our study were 10 times these—that is, 2100 and …
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