Jai Prakash
India
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.
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DOI:
10.4172/2329-6887.1000119