Most drug liver injury cases are the result of an unexpected interaction with medications. We present a 33-year-old woman, four months postpartum, on ethinyl estradiol/norgestrel, who presented in the ED with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and severe pruritus six weeks after starting glecaprevir-pibrentasvir (GP) treatment. The patient was suspected to have a drug-induced liver injury (DILI), and GP was discontinued.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective To investigate the association between opioid drug use and cardiometabolic risk factors in an adult sample data acquired from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Methods A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was performed using the data from the NHANES for the period 2009-2018 provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amounting to a total of N = 10,032 eligible participants. The data were analyzed to study the relationship between opioid drug use (dividing into four dichotomy groups: drug use (DU) group, illicit drug use (IDU) group, repeated drug use (RDU) group, and current drug use (CDU) group) and cardiometabolic disease risk factors (CDRF) (i.
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