Adverse Effects of Plant Food Supplements and Plants Consumed as Food: Results from the Poisons Centres-Based PlantLIBRA Study

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 988-996

  Lüde, Saskia ^a   Vecchio, Sarah ^b   Sinno Tellier, Sandra ^c   Dopter, Aymeric ^d   Mustonen, Harriet ^e   Vucinic, Slavica ^f   Jonsson, Birgitta ^g   Müller, Dieter ^h   Veras Gimenez Fruchtengarten, Ligia ⁱ   Hruby, Karl ^j   De Souza Nascimento, Elizabeth ^k   Di Lorenzo, Chiara ^l   Restani, Patrizia ^l   Kupferschmidt, Hugo ^a   Ceschi, Alessandro ^a,m,n  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d Nutrivigilance   (France)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^g Swedish Poisons Information Center   (Sweden)

^h GIZ Nord Poisons Center   (Germany)

ⁱ Hospital Municipal Dr Arthur Ribeiro de Saboya   (Brazil)

^j Poisons Information Centre   (Austria)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁿ REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

adverse reactions; botanicals; nutritional supplements; plants; poisons centres; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLIUM URSINUM; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICHOKE; ARTICLE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; ECG ABNORMALITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINSENG; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA; GUARANA; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; MENTHA PIPERITA; MIOSIS; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; PASSIFLORA INCARNATA; PLANT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESTLESSNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN IRRITATION; SOMNOLENCE; SOUR ORANGE; TACHYCARDIA; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; POISON CENTER;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84960153373     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.5604     Document Type: Article

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