NephJC Drive Time 001: An army of NSAIDs

This is the audio commentary of the NephJC Chats on March 19 and 20, 2019.

This week we discussed the study published in JAMA Network Open, on the kidney outcomes in NSAID users from the US military.

The article (open access) is available here.

The NephJC summary can be read here, with links to the visual abstract.

Links from the show:

In the background section, we mentioned the data from the Physicians Health Study (two reports) and the Nurses Health Study. There was also discussion about this high quality study from Switzerland in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

The NephMadness pain region scouting report, from Sam Gelfand

The PRECISION trial published in NEJM, and the NephJC summary by Scherly Leon

High risk of GI bleeding in CKD patients

A study from Taiwan reporting high risk of stroke with NSAIDs even in anuric patients

Host: Joel Topf

Co-hosts: Samira Farouk, Swapnil Hiremath, Jennie Lin and Matt Sparks