Reduction of side effects of treatment is achieved by identification of patients who are at risk for developing side effects, by reduction of the number of patients that are exposed to non-effective treatment.
But even people who initially take the antibiotic without a problem risk developing side effects from Cipro with time.
They are preferable, doctors say, for the 15 to 30percentt of patients who develop side effects from ACE inhibitors, mainly a persistent and sometimes intolerable cough.
Some medicines also simply cause a stronger effect in older adults than in younger people, and that difference means that older people have a greater chance of developing side effects from medication.
According to an article in the September issue of The Western Journal of Medicine, "Prescribing Medication for Asians With Mental Disorders," many Asians develop side effects to medications at lower doses compared with other ethnic groups.
Government studies like those at the National Cancer Institute, posted on the Web site cancernet.nci.nih.gov, post clear warnings: "Because all potentially harmful side effects are not known before a trial is conducted, dose and schedule modifications may be required for participants if they develop side effects from the treatment or test.
Sometimes patients develop side effects that require us to look for other therapeutic options.
Having a diagnosis of medication overuse and having developed side effects to the injection were also associated with an increase likelihood of having an improvement after the treatment.
However, almost 50% of patients who received IV morphine developed side effects of dizziness, whereas none in the parecoxib group did.
Older age, female gender, chronic migraine, increased number of past preventive use, medication overuse and developing side effects were all associated with an increased likelihood of positive treatment outcome.
