Creation of a Natural Health Products Database for Assessing Safety for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease or Renal Transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is a lack of published safety information on the use of natural health products (NHPs) for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or renal transplant.

Objective

To create an online database to provide evidence-based safety recommendations for commonly used NHPs, specific to patients with CKD or renal transplant.

Methods

NHPs used by CKD and transplant patients in British Columbia were identified from the records of the BC Provincial Renal Agency. For each NHP, several databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Lexi-Natural Products, PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset, and Natural Medicines) were searched for any information pertaining to dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, immunomodulatory effects, and pharmacokinetics in patients with renal disea

SUBMITTER: Leung S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659245 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature