Frequency and types of food-drug interactions in Cardiac Care Units

Moradi, Y and Hossain Gholipour, K and Mashalahi, A.R and Baghaei, R and Jafarizadeh, H and Amiri, S (2016) Frequency and types of food-drug interactions in Cardiac Care Units. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (7). pp. 32-34.

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Abstract

In the discussion on drug interactions, mainly drug-drug interactions comes to mind. While, in this regard the role of food-drug interaction is one of the important issues. This study aimed to determine the frequency and type of food –drug interactions in the cardiac care units was conducted. Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive cross-sectional study, in which the frequency and types of fooddrug interactions were analyzed in CCU patients at Urmia teaching hospitals Iran, in 2015. For two months from the beginning of November to the end of December, medicines and nutritional status of hospitalized patients in CCUs at Urmia university hospitals were recorded in the researcher- made questionnaire in the morning, afternoon and night shifts. The collected data were analyzed by using Spss software (version 15) and descriptive statistics. Results: The final analysis of 220 completed forms, 192 cases of food-drug interactions during two months of monitoring were noted. Conclusion: The occurrence of food-drug interaction in hospitalized patients in cardiac care units are frequent. This can be due to a lack of awareness of health personnel towards the food-drug interactions

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