Safety of Herbal Supplements: A Guide for Cardiologists

Safety of herbal supplements: a guide for cardiologists.

Many patients use herbal supplements to treat chronic cardiovascular conditions and often combine herbal ingredients with cardiovascular medications. However, physicians do not reliably elicit a history of herbal use from their patients and may overlook herbal supplements' adverse effects. Although often considered harmless by patients, herbal supplements may cause adverse cardiovascular effect...

Quality assurance and safety of herbal dietary supplements.

Since the U.S. Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, use of herbal products has been growing rapidly worldwide. To ensure consumer health protection, the quality and safety of herbal plants, particularly those used for dietary supplement preparations, must be determined. To date, toxicological data on the identification of genotoxic and tumorigenic ing...

Herbal supplements: cause for concern?

Statistical considerations in economic evaluations: a guide for cardiologists.

The author reviews statistical methods commonly applied in economic evaluations that rely on individual patient-level data. The paper includes a review of foundational concepts, unique characteristics of health economic data, and methods developed to address them. The paper then highlights issues that should be considered in the interpretation of findings from economic evaluations.

The effectiveness and safety of Iranian herbal medicines for treatment of premenstrual syndrome: A systematic review

Objective: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is one of the most common problems among women of reproductive age. The popularity of complementary/alternative therapies has grown in recent years, and these treatments have been more commonly used by women (48.9%) than men (37.8%). The aim of this systematic review was to assess effectiveness and safety of Iranian herbal medicines for treatment of premen...