Table 7.
Mined side-effect counts for some high frequency drugs
| Medications.com | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug | Number | Total | Number | Number of |
| name | of forum | Number of | of unique | side-effects |
| messages | side-effects | side-effects | occurring | |
| mined | mined | mined | > 5 times | |
| Lisinopril | 255 | 939 | 240 | 48 |
| Prednisone | 111 | 539 | 180 | 24 |
| Singulair | 103 | 446 | 142 | 19 |
| Kenalog | 84 | 263 | 110 | 11 |
| Topamax | 60 | 266 | 98 | 10 |
| Steadyhealth.com | ||||
| Drug | Number | Total | Number of | Number of |
| name | of forum | Number of | unique | side-effects |
| messages | side-effects | side-effects | occurring | |
| mined | mined | mined | > 5 times | |
| Adderall | 180 | 530 | 173 | 27 |
| Cortisone | 170 | 507 | 159 | 20 |
| Effexor | 141 | 478 | 134 | 19 |
| Suboxone | 108 | 296 | 91 | 9 |
| Zoloft | 103 | 406 | 123 | 16 |