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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The data, Friedman added, is not really all that surprising since prior animal studies had indicated that the kidney problems associated with NSAIDs were attributable to the blockage of the cox-1 enzyme rather than the cox-2 enzyme.
Traditional NSAIDs such as naproxen block both enzymes, while the cox-2 inhibitors, as their name suggests, block only the cox-2 variant.
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SOURCES: Scott Friedman, M.D., Fishberg professor of medicine, and chief, division of liver disease, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; March 2005 Hepatology
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