When your life is teethering on the edge of uncertainty, then you want to make sure you make sures you use the best information out there to improve your quality of life.
For those heart patients who are taking Plavix blood thinner to help their heart work easier but are also taking acid-reducing PPI Nexium for their GERD (gastric reflux)or any of these like Tagamet, Prozac, then they might as well be taking a Placebo.
The drugs may make the anti-clotting drug Plavix dangerously less effective which means 3.58 times greater risk for major adverse cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, and stroke. This risk was published in December 22, 2008.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/NEJMoa0808227v1
This risk was again brought to media attention in March 2009.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=98231
The FDA eventually issued this warning on Nov 17.
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm190848
Link:
http://goodcareofyourheart.blogspot.com/
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