[Drug-drug interactions in diabetic patients at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology].
Drug-drug interactions in diabetic patients could be serious, even life threatening. Possible manifestation of hypo/hyperglycemia as a consequence of drug-drug interactions are often wrong interpreted as a nonadherence to the diabetic diet or polymorbidity of the patient. Drug-drug interactions are not taken into account. The risk of drug-drug interactions is exponentially increasing with the number of taken drugs. In the group of diabetic patients is good to prevent the combinations of drugs, which can lead to drug-drug interactions and use alternative therapy with lower potential of drug-drug interactions. In this paper we present the possibilities of clinical pharmacist from the Department of clinical pharmacology to prevent and solve the drug-drug interactions in diabetic patients.
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Oddelenie klinickej formakológie Fakultnej nemocnice Nitra, Slovenská republika. klinfarma@fnnitra.sk
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D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans