Doctors Should not Prescribe Fibrates as First Line Treatment in New Patients with Blood Lipid Disorders

18 Dec

Posted by admin as Blood Lipid Disorders, Diseases, Metabolic disease

Fibrate class of drugs has been used for many years to reduce levels of lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol) in the blood. Fibrate class of drugs circulating among others: Bezafibrat, Ciprofibrat, fenofibrate and Gemfibrozil. In 2005 the CHMP Pharmacovigilance Working Party had conducted a review of benefits and risks associated ratio fibrates because of the limited [...]

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Provision of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Long Term Increase The Risk of Hypomagnesemia

18 Dec

Posted by admin as Diseases, Gastroenterology, Medicine

Drugs included in the category of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) that circulated in Indonesia, among others: Esomeprazole, Omeprazole, lansoprazole and Pantroprazole, with a working mechanism to reduce or suppress gastric acid secretion by inhibiting the enzyme activity of H / K ATPase (proton pump) in surface of gastric parietal cells at a pH less than [...]