FDA: Heart patients drink grapefruit juice with caution.

A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that drinking a glass of grapefruit juice a day keeps blood vessels in a healthy state and helps people stay away from heart disease, largely because citrus fruits such as grapefruit are rich in flavonoids that are good for the heart."Daily intake of grapefruit juice helps middle-aged menopausal women stay away from atherosclerosis and maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, allowing blood to flow better into the heart," the
researchers said in the report. This effect should be associated with flavonoids in grapefruit."
but researchers caution that drinking grapefruit juice with caution may affect drug effectiveness.
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website published an article reminding that grapefruit juice and certain drugs can cause adverse reactions, and may even lead to sudden death. Previous studies have shown that the rich furan toyin in grapefruit inhibits the enzyme activity of the drug that breaks down in the body, leading to a doubling of the amount of medicine that enters the bloodstream."When taking a statin to lower cholesterol and refer to grapefruit juice, there will be more drugs in the blood that can lead to liver damage and even kidney failure, " said Huang Xiumei, director of clinical pharmacology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
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researchers also say that taking the drug is dangerous for several hours before and after drinking grapefruit juice. They caution that common drugs that react with grapefruit juice are mainly six types of statins
cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as sivastatin, liptatin (attovastatin) and (provastatin);
Health Times reporter Wu Xiaoyin compiled in the Daily Mail
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