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I think Google would help with the nephrotoxicity topic, but with regards to cardiovascular risk, the FDA has been doing a ton of work on it since the early 2000's when Vioxx and Bextra were pulled off the market. The other NSAIDs like ibuprofen, naproxen were kept on the market due to a lower, but not non-existent, risk.

I take NSAID for pain, but personally I'm not too concerned as it's only a ~10-50% increase in relative risk. If I was at a higher risk for stroke or heart attack, or took them very frequently (say daily for arthritis) I'd probably look for alternatives, but there are lots of others things to worry about.

This is the latest FDA update I could find, there may be more information out there:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-d...



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