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SynthesisMedicine2018

Meta-analysis of the adverse events associated with extended-release versus standard immediate-release pramipexole in Parkinson disease.

Zhengze Shen, Deping Kong

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Synthesis in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhengze ShenDepartment of Pharmacy, Yongchuan Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Deping Kong
Chongqing Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn order to increase treatment choices for patients with Parkinson disease (PD), we performed a retrospective assessment of adverse events associated with a novel once-daily extended-release (ER) formulation versus the standard immediate-release (IR) of the nonergolinic dopamine agonist, pramipexole.

methodsThe PubMed and Embase databases, as well as the foreign language medical information resource retrieval platform were searched from 2007 to 2017. The relative risks (RR) of various adverse events with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were generated. The Modified Jadad score (MJs) was used to assess the quality of individual studies. Funnel plots were used to evaluate publication bias.

resultsThree randomized controlled trials involving 1021 patients were included in this meta-analysis. We evaluated common adverse events associated with pramipexole in the gastrointestinal and nervous systems. These included the typical gastrointestinal symptom of nausea (RR = 0.96, 95% CI: 0.72-1.28; P = .80 > .05) and nervous system symptoms of somnolence (RR = 1.16, 95% CI: 0.95-1.43; P = .14 > .05), dizziness (RR = 1.11, 95% CI: 0.80-1.54; P = .54 > .05), and dyskinesia (RR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.47-1.60; P = .66 > .05).

conclusionPatients with PD treated with 2 different pramipexole formulations (ER and IR) had similar incidences of common adverse events.

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BenzothiazolesDelayed-Action PreparationsDopamine AgonistsDrug Administration ScheduleFemaleHumansMaleParkinson DiseasePramipexoleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRetrospective StudiesSeverity of Illness IndexBenzothiazolesDelayed-Action PreparationsDopamine AgonistsPramipexole

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PMID30142750
PMCPMC6112990
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