more drugs that can interact with grapefruit juice

March 1999

Researchers are continuing to identify more drugs that can interact with grapefruit juice.

The latest one is buspirone (Buspar).

Grapefruit juice can increase plasma buspirone concentrations up to 16 times...by inhibiting its metabolism in the GI tract.

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