Use of a pharmaceutically adulterated dietary supplement, Pai You Guo, among Brazilian-born women in the United States

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-56

  Cohen, Pieter A ^a,b   Benner, Carly ^b,c   McCormick, Danny ^a,b  

^a Cambridge Health Alliance ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

adulterated pharmaceuticals; dietary supplements; weight loss; women's health

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; PAI YOU GUO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG RECALL; DRUG USE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; INCOME; INSOMNIA; NAUSEA; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SWEATING; SYNCOPE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYCLOBUTANES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG RECALLS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOLPHTHALEIN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856707150     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1828-0     Document Type: Review

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