J Res Med Sci
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Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are one of the commonest causes of medication error in developed countries, particularly in the elderly due to poly-therapy, with a prevalence of 20-40%. In particular, poly-therapy increases the complexity of therapeutic management and thereby the risk of clinically important DDIs, which can both induce the development of adverse drug reactions or reduce the clinical efficacy. DDIs can be classify into two main groups: pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic. In this review, using Medline, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library and Reference lists we searched articles published until June 30 2012, and we described the mechanism of pharmacokinetic DDIs focusing the interest on their clinical implications.
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Previous studies have inspected the associations between Adiponectin (ADIPOQ) 276G/T polymorphisms and atherosclerosis, but the results are inconclusive. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between polymorphism +276 G > T (rs1501299) in ADIPOQ and atherosclerosis. A widespread search was directed to identify all studies on the association of ADIPOQ 276G/T polymorphism with atherosclerosis risk. ⋯ Furthermore there was no evidence of publication bias in the meta-analysis. The present meta-analysis showed that there is no association between ADIPOQ 276G/T polymorphism and atherosclerosis. High quality studies are still needed to add for more investigation of the association between ADIPOQ 276G/T polymorphisms and atherosclerosis.