Grapefruit juice prolongs the QT interval of healthy volunteers and patients with long QT syndrome

Chorin, E; Hochstadt, A; Granot, Y; Khoury, S; Schwartz, AL; Margolis, G; Barashi, R; Viskin, D; Ghantous, E; Schnapper, M; Mekori, T; Fourey, D; Guevara-Valdivia, ME; Marquez, MF; Zeltzer, D; Rosso, R; Viskin, S

Viskin, S (reprint author), Tel Aviv Med Ctr & Sch Med, Dept Cardiol, Weizman 6, IL-64239 Tel Aviv, Israel.

HEART RHYTHM, 2019; 16 (8): 1141

Abstract

BACKGROUND The list of medications linked to drug-induced long QT syndrome (LQTS) is diverse. It is possible that food products too have QT-prolonging......

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