Table 5 Overall incidence of adverse effects reported, likely drug-related adverse effects and proportion of patients who discontinued medication due to adverse effects
Study (author, year)Overall incidenceDrug-relatedNo. discontinued
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
FNFFNFFNF
Travoprost/Timolol (Hughes, 2005)44 (27.3)55 (35.5)Approx.5%Approx.5%
Latanoprost/Timolol (Diestelhorst, 2006)44 (16.8)62 (24.4)21 (8.0)33 (13.0)6 (2.3)7 (2.8)
Brimonide tartrate/Timolol (Goni, 2005)56 (30.3)45 (24.6)38 (20.2)26 (14.2)4 (2.1)2 (1.1)
Brimonidine tartrate/Timolol (Konstas, 2007)8 (28.5)12 (42.8)4 (12.5)3 (9.3)
Travoprost/Timolol (Schuman, 2005)25.434.48 (5.0)4 (2.5)
Dorzolamide/Timolol (Hutzelmann, 1998)72 (47.6)76 (51.3)36 (23.8)43 (29.0)2 (1.0)1 (1.0)
Dorzolamide/Timolol (Strohmaier, 1998)41 (34.0)31 (26.0)12 (10.0)12 (10.0)7 (6.0)3 (2.0)
  • F, fixed combination; NF, non-fixed combination.