Medication use and microscopic colitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microscopic colitis is an increasingly common cause of watery diarrhoea. Several classes of medications have been associated with microscopic colitis in prior studies.

Aims

To determine the association between the use of previously implicated medications and microscopic colitis.

Methods

This was a case-control study of patients referred for elective, outpatient colonoscopy for diarrhoea. Patients were excluded for inflammatory bowel disease, C difficile, or other infectious diarrhoea. Colon biopsies were reviewed by the study pathologist and patients were classified as microscopic colitis cases or non-microscopic colitis controls.

Results

The study population included 110 microscopic colitis cases and 252 controls. The cases were older, better educat

SUBMITTER: Sandler RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511165 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature