A Review of Dietary Supplement–Induced Renal Dysfunction
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A review of dietary supplement-induced renal dysfunction.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a multibillion-dollar industry. Almost half of the American population uses some form of CAM, with many using them in addition to prescription medications. Most patients fail to inform their health care providers of their CAM use, and physicians rarely inquire. Annually, thousands of dietary supplement-induced adverse events are reported to Poison...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.00500107