NABP Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination Exam Practice Test

Drug known as the new relative cromolyn like drug include:

Antimalarial drug used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis as DMRA-Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug

Osteoporosis is mainly characterized by:

Use of estrogen in osteoporosis:

I- Estrogen enhance calcium retention and retard bone loss

II- Estrogen is useful in treat osteoporosis associated to menopause

III- Estrogen is not effective at increasing bone mass that has already been lost.

Allopurinol, xanthine oxidase inhibitor, used in gout treatment may produce all the following side effects, EXCEPT:

Characteristics of GOUT, a group of disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism may include:

I- Hereditary metabolite disease marked by inflammation of the joints

II- The joint inflammation is caused by precipitation of uric acid crystals

III- It is a type osteoporosis

Goals of gout treatment may include:

I- Reduce inflammation during acute attacks

II- Accelerate renal excretion of uric acid

III- Reduce the conversion of purine to uric acid