The role of European healthcare databases for post-marketing drug effectiveness, safety and value evaluation: where does Italy stand?

G Trifirò, R Gini, F Barone-Adesi, E Beghi, A Cantarutti… - Drug Safety, 2019 - Springer
Enormous progress has been made globally in the use of evidence derived from patients'
clinical information as they access their routine medical care. The value of real-world data …

Generating evidence from computerized healthcare utilization databases

G Corrao, G Mancia - Hypertension, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Corrao and Mancia Real-World Data and Clinical Research 491 and MR databases, in
comparison with conventional sources of healthcare information, is provided in Table 1. 17 …

Cardiovascular outcomes and mortality associated with discontinuing statins in older patients receiving polypharmacy

F Rea, A Biffi, R Ronco, M Franchi… - JAMA Network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polypharmacy is a major health concern among older adults. While
deprescribing may reduce inappropriate medicine use, its effect on clinical end points …

Adherence to antidiabetic drug therapy and reduction of fatal events in elderly frail patients

F Rea, L Savaré, V Valsassina, S Ciardullo… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - Springer
Background To evaluate the protective effect of oral antidiabetic drugs in a large cohort of
elderly patients with type 2 diabetes differing for age, clinical status, and life expectancy …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent erectile dysfunction in men exposed to the 5α-reductase inhibitors, finasteride, or dutasteride

T Kiguradze, WH Temps, PR Yarnold, J Cashy… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Objective Our chief objective was to assess whether longer duration of 5α-RI exposure
increases risk of PED, independent of age and other known risk factors. Men with shorter 5α …

Adjuvanted versus non-adjuvanted standard-dose influenza vaccines in preventing all-cause hospitalizations in the elderly: a cohort study with nested case-control …

F Lapi, A Domnich, E Marconi, A Rossi… - Expert Review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background The higher effectiveness of adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine (aTIV) versus
non-adjuvanted (na) formulations in preventing all-cause hospitalization has been …

Risk of Dementia during antihypertensive drug therapy in the elderly

F Rea, G Corrao, G Mancia - Journal of the American College of …, 2024 - jacc.org
Background Evidence exists that lowering high blood pressure reduces the risk of dementia.
However, the generalizability of this evidence to old patients from the general population …

Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs correlates with the risk of venous thromboembolism in knee osteoarthritis patients: a UK population-based case-control …

T Lee, N Lu, DT Felson, HK Choi, DS Dalal… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective. We aimed to examine whether the current users of specific NSAIDs have an
increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) among knee OA patients. Methods. We …

Statin treatment reduces the risk of death among elderly frail patients: evidence from a large population-based cohort

F Rea, G Mancia, G Corrao - European Journal of Preventive …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims To assess the protective effect of statins in a large and unselected cohort of frail elderly
subjects. Methods and results The 460 460 Lombardy residents (Italy), aged≥ 65 years …

Use of statin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular outcomes in elderly patients: A propensity-matched cohort study

Y Cho, Y Jeong, DH Seo, SH Ahn, S Hong, YJ Suh… - Atherosclerosis, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and aims Herein, we investigate whether statin treatment as primary prevention
reduces cardiovascular outcomes in elderly Asian patients. Methods Data were obtained …