Pattern of drug use during the first trimester among Chinese women: data from a population-based cohort study
| Autor: | Zhao-Hui Huang, Daijuan Cheng, Li-Min Xiao, Xiu-Yu Qi, Xiaoming Zhu, Fangbiao Tao, Peng Zhu, Zhihua Zhang, Xiu-Ya Xing, Yuan-Yuan Xu, Jiahu Hao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Drug Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Prescription Drugs Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Traditional Chinese medicine Cohort Studies Asian People Pregnancy Epidemiology Pharmacovigilance medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Medicine Chinese Traditional Practice Patterns Physicians' Risk factor media_common Pharmacology Traditional medicine Obstetrics business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Pharmacoepidemiology medicine.disease Pregnancy Trimester First Female business Drugs Chinese Herbal Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 66:511-518 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1041 0031-6970 |
| Popis: | To describe the pattern of drug use among Chinese women during the first trimester and to examine the impact of maternal diseases on the choice of drugs. This drug utilisation study of pregnant women was performed using data from the ABCD cohort study. A total of 4,290 women were enrolled in the analysis. Information was collected by self-completion questionnaire combined with the “Maternal health handbook”. Of the 4,290 women interviewed, 75.9% of women took at least one drug during the first trimester. Users took a mean number of 1.43 drugs. The most frequently used drugs were folic acid (65.2%), vitamins (14.6%), calcium (12.0%), minerals (11.1%), Chinese traditional patent medicine (CTPM; 10.1%) and anti-infectives (6.5%). Among the women having used CTPM, influenza/cold and threatened abortion were the most commonly reported indications. Logistic regression analysis of drug use (excluding nutritional and haematological drugs) shows that CTPM and Western medicine are both associated with the use of drugs for occasional diseases and against threatened abortion. Maternal chronic diseases were not associated with the use of CTPM. This analysis of pregnant women showed that drugs were prescribed to most women, even when nutritional and haematological drugs were excluded. Our data reflect, except for drugs used for chronic diseases, a general reluctance among Chinese women to use Western medicine and resorting to CTPM during pregnancy |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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