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Carlos Antonio Gusmão Guerreiro de Moura

| Nov 09, 2018 7:32 pm

Unfortunately, this data can be misinterpreted. In clinical practice painful conditions are not usually acute and short-term (exceptly secondary to overuse/ trauma). Instead it is not uncommon to be chronic and recurrent. Therefore, although short-term NSAIDs use appears to be safe in CKD, heart failure, and hypertension patients, its recurrent use can not be considered safe. I believe that, just like opioid abuse, anti-inflammatory abuse should be tackled and even if it proves to be safe in some situations, its use should be discouraged through constant patient education, reinforcing them to not “autoprescribe” NSAIDs.