Journal of Pharmacovigilance

Prasad Thota

Publications

• Research Article
  Weight gain in Association with Insulin Use - An Analysis of Individual Case Safety Reports an Indian Database
  Author(s): Prasad Thota, Kalaiselvan Vivekanandan, Jai Prakash, Surinder Singh and Gyanendra Nath SinghPrasad Thota, Kalaiselvan Vivekanandan, Jai Prakash, Surinder Singh and Gyanendra Nath Singh
  
  Background: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization’s (CDSCO) Pharmacovigilance Programme of India for National Drug Monitoring, maintained by the National Coordination Centre (NCC)- Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, has 60 member AMCs (Adverse drug reaction Monitoring Centers) contributing individual case safety reports (ICSRs) from their existing regional Pharmacovigilance centers; these reports are stored in the Indian patients ICSR database, VigiFlow. A continuous increase of ICSRs with weight-increase is suspected to be connected with insulin use has been observed in VigiFlow; however only limited information has been published on this topic. Objective: To examine in detail the association between Insulin and weight gain by outlining the characteristics of the accumulated reports in VigiFlow. .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6887.1000119

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