The authors concluded that venlafaxine showed a favorable trend in remission and response rates compared with duloxetine, but that no significant between-drug differences were observed for dropout rates and adverse events.
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Duloxetine compared with fluoxetine and venlafaxine: use of meta-regression analysis for indirect comparisons.
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The odds ratio of the response factor varied from 0.81 to 0.95, favouring numerically duloxetine in every analysis and reaching borderline significance when the estimate was close to 0.81.
This advantage is borderline significant when adjusting for duration (corresponding odds ratio 1.36).