The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE1513
ISSUE1513
January 30, 2017
Drug Interaction: Dabigatran (Pradaxa) and Statins
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Drug Interaction: Dabigatran (Pradaxa) and Statins
January 30, 2017 (Issue: 1513)
The results of a recently published study suggest that
taking the oral direct thrombin inhibitor dabigatran
etexilate (Pradaxa) with either simvastatin (Zocor, and
others) or lovastatin (Altoprev, and others) increases the
risk of major...more
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