Hindawi Publishing Corporation Gastroenterology Research and Practice Volume 2016, Article ID 8419304, 5 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8419304
Research Article Do NSAIDs and ASA Cause More Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Elderly than Adults? Hakan Kocoglu,1 Basak Oguz,2 Hakan Dogan,3 Yildiz Okuturlar,1 Mehmet Hursitoglu,1 Ozlem Harmankaya,1 Yuksel Altuntas,4 and Abdulbaki Kumbasar1 1
Department of Internal Medicine, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University Medical Faculty, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Izmir Bozyaka Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey 4 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2
Correspondence should be addressed to Hakan Kocoglu;
[email protected] Received 19 October 2015; Accepted 9 December 2015 Academic Editor: Francesco Franceschi Copyright © 2016 Hakan Kocoglu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose. NSAIDs and ASA may cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) both in adults and in elderly. There is no study that compares this increased bleeding risk between adult and elderly subjects. Methods. A total of 524 patients with UGIB were included in this study. The data of patients were, respectively, analyzed. Results. NSAIDs and ASA-associated UGIB rates were similar between
