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An adverse effect is an effect that is bad and usually harmful.

A side effect is an effect that it can cause.

A side effect would be that it can make you tired. An adverse effect would be that it can kill you.

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12y ago

ADE includes harm caused by the drug (adverse drug reactions and overdoses) and harm from the use of the drug (including dose reductions and discontinuations of drug therapy)."

An adverse drug reaction is a "response to a drug which is noxious and unintended and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease or for the modification of physiologic function."

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What is differences between side effect and adverse effect?

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there is only a small difference, but effects are partially due to something and can occur in due time, and a reaction is entirely due to something and occur immediately.

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