What does GPRD stand for?

General Practice Research Database

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General Practice Research Database, which contains more than 6 million people.

Oral contraceptives 'increase lupus risk'

Researchers reviewed more than three million cold cases between 1991 and 2001recorded on the UK General Practice Research Database and reached the verdictthat antibiotics would not have been justified in reducing the risk ofcomplications.

Doctors are 'wasting' antibiotics on colds

Methods We conducted our retrospective case-control study by using the General Practice Research Database (GPRD).

Antimicrobial drugs and community-acquired methicillin-resistant ...

Orchidopexy rates were also obtained from the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) for England to cross-validate the hospital admissions data.

Temporal trends in orchidopexy, Great Britain, 1992-1998. (Children's ...

The one year "real life" study being reported on today was designed to assess the effectiveness of QVAR([R]) and other ICS therapies in patients identified from the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), the world's largest primary care computerized database of anonymized longitudinal medical records.

Study Demonstrates That QVAR[R] is More Likely to Achieve Successful ...

The second study, a nested case-control study drawn from the United Kingdom General Practice Research Database, calculated incidence rates of newly diagnosed cardiac valve regurgitation in 11,417 patients who had received prescriptions for antiparkinsonian medications.

Two Parkinson's drugs linked with valve damage

Using data from Britain's General Practice Research Database, Spanish researchers found 14 per cent of patients aged 60 to 84 on first admission to hospital for heart failure were taking drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen.

'Statins for all' call to make Britain healthy

Jick and associates from Boston University used the General Practice Research Database from general practices in the United Kingdom to perform additional case-control and cohort studies of the risk of VTE in users of OCs.

Do Third-Generation Oral Contraceptives Have a Higher Risk of Venous ...