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Nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs for pain in women with endometriosis

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2017
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Title
Nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs for pain in women with endometriosis
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2017
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004753.pub4
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Authors

Julie Brown, Tineke J Crawford, Claire Allen, Sally Hopewell, Andrew Prentice

Abstract

Endometriosis is a common gynaecological condition that affects women and can lead to painful symptoms and infertility. It greatly affects women's quality of life, impacting their careers, everyday activities, sexual and nonsexual relationships and fertility. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are most commonly used as first-line treatment for women with pain associated with endometriosis. To assess effects of NSAIDs used for management of pain in women with endometriosis compared with placebo, other NSAIDs, other pain management drugs or no treatment. We searched the Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group Specialised Register of Controlled Trials (October 2016), published in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library, as well as MEDLINE (January 2008 to October 2016), Embase (date limited from 1 January 2016 to 19 October 2016, as all earlier references are included in CENTRAL output as a result of the Embase project), registers of ongoing trials and the reference lists of relevant publications. We identified no new randomised controlled trials. Unless we identify new evidence in the future, we will not update this review. We included all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) describing use of NSAIDs for management of pain associated with endometriosis in women of all ages. In the 2009 update of this review, two review authors (CA and SH) independently read and extracted data from each of the included studies. We analysed cross-over trials using the inverse variance method of RevMan to calculate odds ratios for binary outcomes. We identified no new trials for the 2016 update. This review includes two trials, but we included only one trial, with 24 women, in the analysis.The overall risk of bias was unclear owing to lack of methodological detail. Using the GRADE method, we judged the quality of the evidence to be very low. We downgraded evidence for risk of bias and for imprecision (wide confidence intervals and evidence based on a single small trial).Comparison of NSAIDs (naproxen) versus placebo revealed no evidence of a positive effect on pain relief (odds ratio (OR) 3.27, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.61 to 17.69; one trial, 24 women; very low-quality evidence) in women with endometriosis. Evidence indicating whether women taking NSAIDs (naproxen) were less likely to require additional analgesia (OR 0.12, 95% CI 0.01 to 1.29; one trial, 24 women; very low-quality evidence) or to experience side effects (OR 0.46, 95% CI 0.09 to 2.47; one trial, 24 women; very low-quality evidence) when compared with placebo was inconclusive.Studies provided no data on quality of life, effects on daily activities, absence from work or school, need for more invasive treatment or participant satisfaction with treatment. Owing to lack of high-quality evidence and lack of reporting of outcomes of interest for this review, we can make no judgement as to whether NSAIDs (naproxen) are effective in managing pain caused by endometriosis. No evidence shows whether any individual NSAID is more effective than another. As shown in other Cochrane reviews, women taking NSAIDs must be aware that these drugs may cause unintended effects.

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Unknown 402 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 64 16%
Student > Bachelor 52 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 10%
Researcher 28 7%
Student > Postgraduate 21 5%
Other 60 15%
Unknown 138 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 130 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 22 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 4%
Psychology 14 3%
Other 36 9%
Unknown 157 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2023.
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#435,889
of 25,534,033 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#768
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#9,378
of 423,487 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#24
of 283 outputs
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