“…In the current issue of Drug Safety , Duong et al [ 2 ] report hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), in a French claims database sample, that occurred within 3 months after the dispensing of ibuprofen or paracetamol. A cohort of 168,400 people prescribed 315,269 ibuprofen treatment episodes (TEs) were compared, using propensity score matching, with a cohort of 395,952 patients with 630,457 prescriptions for paracetamol TEs.…”