Monday, February 7, 2011

Race different patients on drug response levels vary greatly

According to a study reported in the patient reacts violently for drugs, the racial background may play a more significant role are expected. This study drug testers complained about receiving rarely provide sufficient information to answer this question.

By the United Kingdom medical journals in the online publication of this report, the study found that the evidence shows that ethnic differences may decide a patient for the risk of cardiovascular drug side effects.

The authors examine the two medicine database, an in-depth look at 24 drug research. These studies confirm that voluntary respondents ' ethnic background and detail for any adverse drug reactions.

In comparison the same condition of patients, the researchers found that blacks taking antihypertensive drugs cause swelling of possibility, is beyond the black race three times; in clots caused by a ruptured in the treatment of bleeding, the chances of blacks than other patients by 50 percent.

However this also acknowledged that in genetics and race classification of Association, there are no consensus, and racial classification be controversial.

In addition, the report noted that dieting and other diseases also changes the patient's sensitivity to drug reaction.

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