Aspirin/alcohol mix not found to worsen upper GI hemorrhage in UCLA study -- AFA.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ASPIRIN/ALCOHOL MIX NOT FOUND TO WORSEN UPPER GI HEMORRHAGE outcome or severity in 1,336 patients, according to an unpublished study by Dennis Jensen, MD, et al., UCLA and West Los Angeles V-A Medical Center, submitted by the Aspirin Foundation of America to FDA. AFA provided the agency with the results of the study, dated January 1998, as part of the industry group's comments on FDA's proposed rules requiring alcohol warnings for analgesic products. AFA continues to strongly oppose alcohol warnings for aspirin products, citing an absence of data proving the warnings to be necessary. AFA's comments were submitted by the D.C. firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. The public comment period ended Jan. 28.