cardiac drug interactions with statins
The American Heart Association just published their recommendations for managing drug-drug interactions between statins and other drugs used for cardiovascular disease (see statin drug interactions circ2016 in dropbox, or DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000456 ). I bring this up because statins are such an important drug that we use all the time, drug-drug interactions overall are common (leading to about 3% of hospital admissions, and the result of many annoying flags in electronic medical records) and because this review goes into detail on the mechanisms of these interactions (whether through the cytochrome P-450, CYP450, system of oxidative enzymes, or those interactions involving permeability glycoprotein P-gp, a superfamily of membrane-associated ATP-binding cassette-transporters, also called multidrug resistance-1; this article gives a good review of these systems, the latter of which was pretty much unknown to me prior to seeing this article….), and the article comments ...