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Is there an association between drugs and burning mouth syndrome? A case-control study
Lorenzo Azzi1, Giovanni Veronesi2, Angelo Tagliabue1
1Unit of Oral Medicine and Pathology, Dental Clinic, ASST Sette Laghi, Ospedale di Circolo, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
Objective:
The purpose of this case-control study was to compare the pharmacological anamnesis collected from a group of 150 burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients with that of a control group of 150 patients matched for age and sex.
Materials And Methods:
The patients' medical histories were reviewed, and data on drug therapy were collected. Drugs were classified on the basis of pharmacological effects; the classes were antihypertensives (i.e., ACE inhibitors/ARBs, calcium antagonists, diuretics and beta-blockers), antiaggregants, anticoagulants, antidiabetics, vitamin D integrators, bisphosphonates, psychotropics (i.e., anxiolytics and antidepressants), gastroprotectors, statins, thyroid hormone substitutes, corticosteroids and immunosuppressants.
Results:
The BMS patients and the controls were matched for age (mean age: 69 years) and sex (128 females and 22 males). Antihypertensives, especially ACE inhibitors/ARBs (OR = 0.37, CI: 0.22-0.63, p = 0.0002) and beta-blockers (OR = 0.36, CI: 0.19-0.68 p = 002), revealed an inverse association with the presence of BMS, whereas anxiolytics (OR = 3.78, CI: 2.12-6.75 p < 0.0001), but neither antidepressants nor antipsychotics, were significantly associated with BMS. There were no correlations with other drug classes.
Conclusion:
Our study highlighted that ACE inhibitors, ARBs and beta-blockers were in inverse relation to BMS and found that anxiolytics, but neither antidepressants nor antipsychotics, were linked to the presence of the syndrome.
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