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Andrejs Leimanis
Researcher at National Board of Health and Welfare
Publications - 5
Citations - 1583
Andrejs Leimanis is an academic researcher from National Board of Health and Welfare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hazard ratio & Pharmacoepidemiology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1360 citations.
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The new Swedish Prescribed Drug Register—Opportunities for pharmacoepidemiological research and experience from the first six months
Björn Wettermark,Björn Wettermark,Niklas Hammar,Niklas Hammar,C. MichaelFored,Andrejs Leimanis,Petra Otterblad Olausson,Ulf Bergman,Ingemar Persson,Ingemar Persson,Anders Sundström,Barbro Westerholm,Måns Rosén +12 more
TL;DR: The content and potentials of the new Swedish national register on prescribed and dispensed medicines are described.
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Inappropriate drug use in the elderly: a nationwide register-based study.
TL;DR: IDU was fairly common among the elderly in Sweden in 2005 and was strongly connected to the number of dispensed drugs they were taking, whereas the opposite relationship prevailed for potentially serious drug–drug interactions.
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Management of antihypertensive drugs in three European countries.
Federica Nicotra,Björn Wettermark,Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom,Andrea Parodi,Rino Bellocco,Anders Ekbom,Luca Merlino,Andrejs Leimanis,Giuseppe Mancia,Michael Fored,Giovanni Corrao +10 more
TL;DR: Management of hypertension is unsatisfactory worldwide due to a very high rate of treatment discontinuation or insufficient use of proper treatment strategies.