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<author><name sortKey="Fettah, Hicham" sort="Fettah, Hicham" uniqKey="Fettah H" first="Hicham" last="Fettah">Hicham Fettah</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
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<author><name sortKey="Moutaouakkil, Youssef" sort="Moutaouakkil, Youssef" uniqKey="Moutaouakkil Y" first="Youssef" last="Moutaouakkil">Youssef Moutaouakkil</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
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<author><name sortKey="Sefrioui, Mohamed Reda" sort="Sefrioui, Mohamed Reda" uniqKey="Sefrioui M" first="Mohamed Reda" last="Sefrioui">Mohamed Reda Sefrioui</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
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<author><name sortKey="Moukafih, Badreddine" sort="Moukafih, Badreddine" uniqKey="Moukafih B" first="Badreddine" last="Moukafih">Badreddine Moukafih</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Bousliman, Yassir" sort="Bousliman, Yassir" uniqKey="Bousliman Y" first="Yassir" last="Bousliman">Yassir Bousliman</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Bennana, Ahmed" sort="Bennana, Ahmed" uniqKey="Bennana A" first="Ahmed" last="Bennana">Ahmed Bennana</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Lamsaouri, Jamal" sort="Lamsaouri, Jamal" uniqKey="Lamsaouri J" first="Jamal" last="Lamsaouri">Jamal Lamsaouri</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Makram, Sanaa" sort="Makram, Sanaa" uniqKey="Makram S" first="Sanaa" last="Makram">Sanaa Makram</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
</affiliation>
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<author><name sortKey="Cherrah, Yahia" sort="Cherrah, Yahia" uniqKey="Cherrah Y" first="Yahia" last="Cherrah">Yahia Cherrah</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
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<author><name sortKey="Fettah, Hicham" sort="Fettah, Hicham" uniqKey="Fettah H" first="Hicham" last="Fettah">Hicham Fettah</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
</affiliation>
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<author><name sortKey="Moutaouakkil, Youssef" sort="Moutaouakkil, Youssef" uniqKey="Moutaouakkil Y" first="Youssef" last="Moutaouakkil">Youssef Moutaouakkil</name>
<affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0001">Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</nlm:aff>
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<author><name sortKey="Sefrioui, Mohamed Reda" sort="Sefrioui, Mohamed Reda" uniqKey="Sefrioui M" first="Mohamed Reda" last="Sefrioui">Mohamed Reda Sefrioui</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Moukafih, Badreddine" sort="Moukafih, Badreddine" uniqKey="Moukafih B" first="Badreddine" last="Moukafih">Badreddine Moukafih</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Bousliman, Yassir" sort="Bousliman, Yassir" uniqKey="Bousliman Y" first="Yassir" last="Bousliman">Yassir Bousliman</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Bennana, Ahmed" sort="Bennana, Ahmed" uniqKey="Bennana A" first="Ahmed" last="Bennana">Ahmed Bennana</name>
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</affiliation>
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<author><name sortKey="Lamsaouri, Jamal" sort="Lamsaouri, Jamal" uniqKey="Lamsaouri J" first="Jamal" last="Lamsaouri">Jamal Lamsaouri</name>
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</affiliation>
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<author><name sortKey="Makram, Sanaa" sort="Makram, Sanaa" uniqKey="Makram S" first="Sanaa" last="Makram">Sanaa Makram</name>
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<author><name sortKey="Cherrah, Yahia" sort="Cherrah, Yahia" uniqKey="Cherrah Y" first="Yahia" last="Cherrah">Yahia Cherrah</name>
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<series><title level="j">The Pan African Medical Journal</title>
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<front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title>
<p>Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are defined as two or more drugs interacting in such a manner that the effectiveness or toxicity of one or more drugs is altered. Patients with cardiovascular disorders are at higher risk for DDIs because of the types and number of drugs they receive. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2"><title>Methods</title>
<p>A prospective observational study from June 2016 to September 2016 was carried out in the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco. Those patients who were taking at least two drugs and had a hospital stay of at least 48 hours were included in the study. The medications of the patients were analysed for possible interactions. All the prescriptions of the study population were screened for drug-drug interactions using a computerized DDI database system (Theriaque<sup>®</sup>
).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s3"><title>Results</title>
<p>During the study period, 138 patients were included; 360 interactions were detected among 94 patients, with an average number of drugs taken of 5.2. The prevalence of DDIs was estimated at 68.11%, the most common of which concerned Kardegic/Plavix (12.22%), Kardegic/Heparin (8.33%), and Lasilix/Spironolactone (5.83%). Among the 726 prescribed drugs, (372 [51.24%]) were drugs of the cardiovascular system, followed by blood and hematopoietic organ drugs (288 [39.67%]) according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification codes. These interactions were categorized on the basis of level of severity: interactions with major severity accounted for 11.11% (40) of the total DDIs while those with moderate and minor severity accounted for 37.22% (134) and 51.66% (186), respectively.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4"><title>Conclusion</title>
<p>This study reports the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco. This study shows that DDIs are frequent among hospitalized cardiac patients and highlights the need to screen prescriptions of cardiovascular patients for possible DDIs, as this helps in their detection and prevention.</p>
<p>Pan African Medical Journal – ISSN: 1937- 8688 (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com">www.panafrican-med-journal.com</ext-link>
)</p>
<p>Published in partnership with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET). (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.afenet.net">www.afenet.net</ext-link>
)</p>
<p>Pan African Medical Journal – ISSN: 1937- 8688 (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com">www.panafrican-med-journal.com</ext-link>
)</p>
<p>Published in partnership with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET). (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.afenet.net">www.afenet.net</ext-link>
)</p>
</sec>
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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Pan Afr Med J</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Pan Afr Med J</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">PAMJ</journal-id>
<journal-title-group><journal-title>The Pan African Medical Journal</journal-title>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">PAMJ-29-225</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.11604/pamj.2018.29.225.14169</article-id>
<article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research</subject>
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<title-group><article-title>Detection and analysis of drug–drug interactions among hospitalized cardiac patients in the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Morocco</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Fettah</surname>
<given-names>Hicham</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">&</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Moutaouakkil</surname>
<given-names>Youssef</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sefrioui</surname>
<given-names>Mohamed Reda</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Moukafih</surname>
<given-names>Badreddine</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bousliman</surname>
<given-names>Yassir</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bennana</surname>
<given-names>Ahmed</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0002">2</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lamsaouri</surname>
<given-names>Jamal</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0002">2</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Makram</surname>
<given-names>Sanaa</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Cherrah</surname>
<given-names>Yahia</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0001">1</xref>
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<aff id="aff0001"><label>1</label>
Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat-Morocco</aff>
<aff id="aff0002"><label>2</label>
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco</aff>
<author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><label>&</label>
Corresponding author: Hicham Fettah, Laboratory of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat Institute, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco</corresp>
</author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>24</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>29</volume>
<elocation-id>225</elocation-id>
<history><date date-type="received"><day>19</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2017</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted"><day>11</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>2018</year>
</date>
</history>
<permissions><copyright-statement>© Hicham Fettah et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><license-p>The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<abstract><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title>
<p>Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are defined as two or more drugs interacting in such a manner that the effectiveness or toxicity of one or more drugs is altered. Patients with cardiovascular disorders are at higher risk for DDIs because of the types and number of drugs they receive. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2"><title>Methods</title>
<p>A prospective observational study from June 2016 to September 2016 was carried out in the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco. Those patients who were taking at least two drugs and had a hospital stay of at least 48 hours were included in the study. The medications of the patients were analysed for possible interactions. All the prescriptions of the study population were screened for drug-drug interactions using a computerized DDI database system (Theriaque<sup>®</sup>
).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s3"><title>Results</title>
<p>During the study period, 138 patients were included; 360 interactions were detected among 94 patients, with an average number of drugs taken of 5.2. The prevalence of DDIs was estimated at 68.11%, the most common of which concerned Kardegic/Plavix (12.22%), Kardegic/Heparin (8.33%), and Lasilix/Spironolactone (5.83%). Among the 726 prescribed drugs, (372 [51.24%]) were drugs of the cardiovascular system, followed by blood and hematopoietic organ drugs (288 [39.67%]) according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification codes. These interactions were categorized on the basis of level of severity: interactions with major severity accounted for 11.11% (40) of the total DDIs while those with moderate and minor severity accounted for 37.22% (134) and 51.66% (186), respectively.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4"><title>Conclusion</title>
<p>This study reports the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco. This study shows that DDIs are frequent among hospitalized cardiac patients and highlights the need to screen prescriptions of cardiovascular patients for possible DDIs, as this helps in their detection and prevention.</p>
<p>Pan African Medical Journal – ISSN: 1937- 8688 (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com">www.panafrican-med-journal.com</ext-link>
)</p>
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)</p>
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)</p>
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)</p>
</sec>
</abstract>
<kwd-group><kwd>Cardiology</kwd>
<kwd>drug–drug interactions</kwd>
<kwd>prevalence</kwd>
<kwd>theriaque</kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body><sec sec-type="intro" id="sec1"><title>Introduction</title>
<p>Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are defined as two or more drugs interacting in such a manner that the effectiveness or toxicity of one or more drugs is altered [<xref rid="cit0001" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>
]. In every DDI, we should distinguish between the molecule which is at the origin of an interaction (that is to say modifying the other drugs' concentration and action) and the molecule whose altered concentration, resulting from the same interaction, ultimately leads to the desired or undesired effects (in the case of a narrow therapeutic index drug) [<xref rid="cit0002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>
]. Various studies have shown that adverse drug reactions are responsible of 0.5% to 2% of consultations in ambulatory medicine and are involved in 4% to 10% of hospitalizations [<xref rid="cit0003" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>
, <xref rid="cit0004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>
]. It has been estimated that 1/3 of the severe adverse effects are due to negligence and thus can be preventable; 20% of these side effects are caused by DDIs [<xref rid="cit0004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>
]. The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases has increased in the last decade and they are considered as the primary cause of mortality in the world [<xref rid="cit0005" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>
]. Indeed, cardiac tropism drugs are the most common cause of drug-related iatrogenia, accounting for 12 to 28% of cases [<xref rid="cit0006" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>
] and are the most implicated drugs in DDIs. Some 1500 out of 300 000 documented DDIs are considered clinically significant, the most serious of which appear in the field of cardiology [<xref rid="cit0007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>
]. Drug-related iatrogenia in their totality are the subject of various studies because of their impact in terms of health economics, but the number of specific studies on DDIs is limited. Although drug interactions are reported to be common in cardiology, there is no published report of the prevalence of such interactions among Moroccan cardiac patients. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco.</p>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="methods" id="sec2"><title>Methods</title>
<p>A prospective observational study was carried out for a period of four months (between June and September 2016) at the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Morocco. Patients who were admitted consecutively to the cardiology department were included in the study. Only patients with two or more drugs prescribed during the hospitalization were selected for the study. The studied population comprised all patients aged 20 years or older admitted to the hospital with a length of stay greater than 48 hours. Demographic information (age and gender), number of drugs taken and length of hospital stay were obtained from the clinical records. All the prescriptions of the study population were screened for drug-drug interactions using a computerized DDI database system (Theriaque<sup>®</sup>
) [<xref rid="cit0008" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>
, <xref rid="cit0009" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>
]. The drugs were classified according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification codes [<xref rid="cit0010" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>
]. The interactions observed were classified into mild, moderate and severe and the data on severity was obtained from the DDI data of the drug database [<xref rid="cit0008" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>
, <xref rid="cit0009" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>
]. The results of the study were reported using the Microsoft Excel software.</p>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="results" id="sec3"><title>Results</title>
<p>A total of 138 patients were analysed during the study period, with a male predominance of (73.9%) and a sex ratio of 0.35. The median patient age was 61.7 years old, with ages ranging from 20 to 92 years old. The average stay in hospital was 10 days (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f0001">Figure 1</xref>
). Most patients had cardiovascular diseases with a predominance of ischemic heart disease (42.75%, n: 59) followed by hypertension (39.85%, n: 55) and atypical chest pain (5.79%, n: 8) (<xref rid="t0001" ref-type="table">Table 1</xref>
). The analysis of prescriptions allowed us to identify 360 interactions among 94 patients, with an average number of drugs taken of 5.2 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f0002">Figure 2</xref>
). The prevalence of DDIs was estimated at 68.11%, the most common of which concerned Kardegic/Plavix (12.22%), Kardegic/Heparin (8.33%), and Lasilix/Spironolactone (5.83%). Among the 726 prescribed drugs, 372 (51.24%) were drugs of the cardiovascular system, followed by blood and hematopoietic organ drugs (288 [39.67%]) according to the ATC classification codes (<xref rid="t0002" ref-type="table">Table 2</xref>
). These interactions were categorized on the basis of level of severity: Interactions of major severity accounted for 11.11% (40) of the total DDIs while those of moderate and minor severity accounted for 37.22% (134) and 51.66% (186), respectively. The clinical consequences of these drug interactions in most cases were hypotension, hypoglycaemia, increased risk of bleeding, and renal dysfunction. The classifications of the potential DDIs were made based on their pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic mechanisms. Among 360 DDIs, 77.78% were pharmacokinetic and 22.22% were pharmacodynamic.</p>
<fig id="f0001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Figure 1</label>
<caption><p>Distribution of patients according to the hospitalization period</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="PAMJ-29-225-g001"></graphic>
</fig>
<fig id="f0002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Figure 2</label>
<caption><p>Number of drug-drug interactions by patient</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="PAMJ-29-225-g002"></graphic>
</fig>
<table-wrap id="t0001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Table 1</label>
<caption><p>Diagnosis of patients with cardiovascular diseases in Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Morocco (n=138)</p>
</caption>
<table frame="border" rules="all"><thead valign="bottom"><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Diagnosis</th>
<th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Number (%)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="bottom"><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ischemic heart disease</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">59 (42.75)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Hypertension</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">55 (39.85)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Atypical Chest Pain</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8 (5.79)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Unstable Angina</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7 (5.07)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Atrial Fibrillation</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (2.89)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Coronary heart disease</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (2.17)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Congestive heart failure</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (1.44)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
<table-wrap id="t0002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Table 2</label>
<caption><p>The anatomical therapeutic chemical classification of prescribed drugs</p>
</caption>
<table frame="border" rules="all"><thead valign="bottom"><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">The anatomical therapeutic chemical classification of drugs</th>
<th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Drug</th>
<th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Number</th>
<th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Percentage (%)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="bottom"><tr><td rowspan="26" align="left" valign="middle" colspan="1">Cardiovascular system = 51.24 %</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ramipril</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">82</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">11.29</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Spironolactone</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">63</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8.68</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lasilix</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">56</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7.71</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Carvedilol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">28</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.86</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Atenolol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.48</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Molsidomine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.48</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Amlodipine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">17</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.34</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Simvastatine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">13</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.79</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Perindopril</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">12</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.65</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Valsartan</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">10</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cordarone</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.1</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Propranolol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.96</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Risordan</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">6</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.83</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Acebutalol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.69</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ivabradine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.55</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Natispray</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.55</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Amiloride/ | Hydrochlorothiazide</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bisoprolol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Captopril</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Digoxine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Irbesartan</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Flecaine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.28</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Indapamide</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Losartan</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Nebivolol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Rosuvastatine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="4" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="1">blood and blood forming organs = 39.67%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Kardegic</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">103</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">14.19</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Heparin</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">75</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">10.33</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plavix</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">63</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8.68</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Sintrom</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">47</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">6.47</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="8" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="1">Digestive tract and metabolism = 5.79%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Insuline</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">25</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.44</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Eucarbon</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.69</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Gliclazide</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Glucophage</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Diffu-K</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.28</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Smecta</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.28</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No-spa</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">prednisolone</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="3" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="1">Muscle and skeleton = 1.24%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Naproxen</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.69</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Allopurinol</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Colchicine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="4" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="1">Nervous system = 0.96%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Laroxyl</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.55</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Deroxat</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Modopar</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Piribedil</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Genitourinary system and sexual hormones = 0.41%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Alfuzosine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.41</td>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="1">Anti-infection drugs for systemic use = 0.28%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ciprofloxacine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Flucloxacilline</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Dermatological drugs = 0.28%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Hydrocortisone</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.28</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Antiparasitics, Insecticides = 0.14%</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Nivaquine</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1</td>
<td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="discussion" id="sec4"><title>Discussion</title>
<p>This study revealed the overall prevalence of clinically important DDIs in the cardiology department to be 68.11%. The value obtained in the present study is higher compared with the study by Patel et al in India, who reported an incidence rate of 30.23% [<xref rid="cit0011" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>
]. These differences might be because our study took into consideration all drug interactions of moderate and minor severity in contrast to the other studies. In our study, there were 726 drugs prescribed to 138 patients. The average number of drugs per patient was 5.2. This can be explained by the simultaneous use of many drugs. The frequent addition of new drugs makes these patients vulnerable to DDIs. The most common interacting pairs identified were Kardegic/Plavix (12.22%), Kardegic/Heparin (8.33%), and Lasilix/Spironolactone (5.83%). The concurrent use of Kardegic with these potentially interacting medications necessitates the tailoring of doses to the individual patient and careful monitoring by the patient and health care provider for signs of bleeding. The classes of drugs most commonly involved in DDIs, according to the ATC classification, were cardiovascular system and blood and blood-forming organs. These two classes together accounted for 90.91% of the identified DDIs. This might be due to the frequent use of these drug classes among the cardiac patients in the present study. The classifications of the potential DDIs were made based on their pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic mechanisms. Among 360 DDIs, (77.78%) were pharmacokinetic and (22.22%) were pharmacodynamic. This figure correlates with the results of similar studies [<xref rid="cit0012" ref-type="bibr">12</xref>
-<xref rid="cit0014" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>
]. In our study, the significant association of DDIs with old age, number of drugs taken, longer hospital stay, and multiple disease states is in accordance with published reports [<xref rid="cit0015" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>
,<xref rid="cit0016" ref-type="bibr">16</xref>
]. These findings suggest that patients with these risk factors are more exposed to DDIs. We recommend that such patients be monitored closely in order to avoid the grave consequences of DDIs. Of the total DDIs identified, the majority were of minor or moderate severity; these findings are different from the reports of spontaneous reporting studies [<xref rid="cit0017" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>
, <xref rid="cit0018" ref-type="bibr">18</xref>
]. Ischemic heart diseases are a major cause of hospitalization. This can be due to the number of co-morbidities or to the high frequency of these diseases in the Moroccan population. This predominance of heart disease may explain the increase in the length of stay at the cardiology department [<xref rid="cit0019" ref-type="bibr">19</xref>
]. The suggested action to be taken in most cases was to strictly control blood glucose; monitor renal function, serum potassium level and coagulation parameters; and watch for clinical signs of hypoglycaemia and bleeding.</p>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="conclusion" id="sec5"><title>Conclusion</title>
<p>This study reports the prevalence of DDIs in patients admitted to the cardiology department of a hospital in Morocco. The study also examined patient and drug characteristics, and the severity of DDIs. This study shows that DDIs are frequent among hospitalized cardiac patients and highlights the need to screen prescriptions of cardiovascular patients for DDIs, as this helps in the detection and prevention of possible adverse drug interactions.</p>
<sec id="sec5.1"><title>What is known about this topic</title>
<list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>The drug-drug interaction increases as the number of concomitant medications increases;</p>
</list-item>
<list-item><p>Patients with cardiovascular diseases are at higher risk for drug-drug interactions because of the types and number of drugs they receive.</p>
</list-item>
</list>
</sec>
<sec id="sec5.2"><title>What this study adds</title>
<list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>The present study has recorded a high prevalence of DDIs in cardiology department;</p>
</list-item>
<list-item><p>The classes of drugs most commonly involved in DDIs were cardiovascular system and blood and blood-forming organs;</p>
</list-item>
<list-item><p>Most of the interactions were of minor or moderate severity.</p>
</list-item>
</list>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec><title>Competing interests</title>
<p>The authors declare no competing interests.</p>
</sec>
</body>
<back><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title>
<p>We thank members of the Pole Pharmacy and the cardiology department of the Military Teaching Hospital Mohamed V in Morocco.</p>
</ack>
<sec><title>Authors’ contributions</title>
<p>Hicham Fettah designed the study protocol, collected data, analyzed the data and drafting of the manuscript. Youssef Moutaouakki, Mohamed Reda Sefriouiand Badreddine Moukafih assisted in designing the study protocol, contributed data and assisted in preparation of the manuscript. Yassir Bousliman, Ahmed Bennana and Jamal Lamsaouri critically revised the manuscript. Sanaa Makram and Yahia Cherrah contributed to study conception and design, interpretation of data and critically reviewed the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the final version of this manuscript.</p>
</sec>
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