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

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