Meloxicam is an enolcarboxamide with preferential COX-2 activity. Studies conducted on experimental models and human tissues indicate that meloxicam is a more potent inhibitor of COX-2 than COX-1 ...

With meloxicam, the average dose is 7.5 milligrams (mg) per day. For ibuprofen, the recommendation is the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time. Older NSAIDs, like meloxicam ...

In particular, meloxicam 7.5 mg/day was associated with a lower incidence ... upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage and peptic ulcer (28.3, 0.4 and 0.3 per 1000 patient-months, respectively) among ...