Top 30 Medications Associated with Palpitations from FAERS, 2018-2022

30 medications are ranked by frequency of palpitation reports in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) from January 2018 to December 2022. The dataset was authored by Qiaoling Pan and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is a 9.5 KB Excel file, last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Ranking drugs by reported palpitation frequency based on the FAERS data source
• Identifying potential safety signals for specific medications based on adverse event frequency
• Analyzing temporal trends in drug-associated palpitations over the 2018-2022 period

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, clinically relevant adverse event (palpitations).
• Covers a defined 5-year time period from 2018 to 2022.
• Provides a ranked list of the top 30 associated medications.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The 9.5 KB file size indicates a very limited scope, likely containing only summary statistics.
• Data may reflect reporting biases inherent to the FAERS spontaneous reporting system.

Provenance

Source

FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)

Collection Method

Likely extracted and aggregated from spontaneous adverse event reports.

Time Range

January 2018 to December 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 17:40:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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