糖尿病外来患者における健康食品の使用実態調査(第1報) : 健康食品に対する患者意識と利用状況

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A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the use of health foods among outpatients with diabetes mellitus (DM) at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido Hospital. Responses were obtained from 69.2% of the patients (180 out of 260). The proportions of patients who had used health foods previously or were using them at the time of the survey were 16.7 and 37.2%, respectively, indicating that more than half of the patients had experience of taking health foods and this was irrespective of sex and age. The most frequently consumed health foods were Aojiru (n=25) followed by Kurozu (n=24) and blueberry extract (n=17). Among the health foods taken, those that influence blood sugar considerably were guava leaves polyphenol (n=16), Gymnema sylvestre extract (n=1), Gymnema sylvestre tea (n=1), and Aloe Vera (n=1). One patient was taking a Chinese health food that contained glibenclamide. Many patients took health foods to keep healthy and as a nutritional supplement, and most of them had not consulted their doctors or pharmacists about the use of health foods. More than 70% of the patients targeted by this study had complications such as hypertension. Since there is a possibility of health foods aggravating DM and its complications and of interactions between them and drugs used to treat DM, doctors, pharmacists and other co-medical workers should provide patients with information on the ingredients of health foods as well the adverse effects that they could have.
日本医療薬学会の論文
2008-02-10

糖尿病外来患者における健康食品の使用実態調査(第1報) : 健康食品に対する患者意識と利用状況

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