Showing posts with label Anticoagulants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anticoagulants. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Drug-Food Interactions: Anticoagulants and Vitamin K

Anticoagulants (blood thinners) have some of the narrowest therapeutic windows of all the drugs available on the market. With Coumadin (warfarin) available in 0.5-1mg increments, it's easy to see that the tiniest alteration in dose can cause problems with too much clotting or too much blood thinning.