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Article: Grapefruit juice may alter effects of drugs
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2006
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In 1989, a group of Canadian researchers studying a blood pressure
drug were astonished to discover that drinking a glass of grapefruit
juice dangerously increased the drug's potency.
They were testing the effects of drinking alcohol on a medicine
called Plendil. The scientists needed something that would hide the
taste of alcohol so that subjects would know only that they were
taking the drug and not know whether they were drinking alcohol with
it.
"One Saturday night, my wife and I tested everything in the
refrigerator," said Dr. David G. Bailey, a research scientist at the
London Health Sciences Center in London, Ontario, and the lead author
on the study. "The only thing that covered the ...