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Warfarin therapy: influence of pharmacogenetic and environmental factors on the anticoagulant response to warfarin.
Vitamins and hormones - 1 Jan 2008
Siguret Virginie, Pautas Eric, Gouin-Thibault Isabelle
Abstract excerpt
Warfarin is difficult to use because of a marked inter- and intraindividual variability among patients in the required dosage. Recent advances in understanding the vitamin K cycle have been made. Besides well-known demographic or environmental factors (advanced age, vitamin K intake, concomitant drugs, comorbid conditions, and acute illnesses), genetic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified...
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