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Tue 12 Dec 2008Go easy on the sauce: and we don't just mean alcohol, we mean cranberry sauce too!
Mind the cranberry sauce! The National Medicines Information Centre this month advised doctors to watch out for the potential for cranberry sauce to increase the effects of the blood-thinning drug, warfarin.
A 75-year-old man with a history of cardiovascular disease had taken a set dose of warfarin for years. However, over the holiday period he indulged in his weakness for turkey sandwiches liberally dressed with cranberry sauce.
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