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Tolerance note 1

What researchers mean by tolerability

Tolerability is a research word for how acceptable a product’s side effects are to the people taking it. It is related to safety, but it is not the same idea.

The short version

  1. Tolerability focuses on how people experience side effects day to day.
  2. Safety also includes rare but serious risks.
  3. Neither word is a promise about how you personally will feel.

Day-to-day experience

Researchers look at nausea, fatigue, skin reactions and other effects that may lead someone to pause or stop a product.

Safety is broader

Serious events, hospitalizations and rare risks sit under safety. A product can be carefully monitored for both.

How it is reported

Study results often show how many people stopped because of side effects, and which effects were most common.

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