TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of medicinal plants in patients with chronic kidney disease from Peru
AU - Herrera-Añazco, Percy
AU - Taype-Rondan, Alvaro
AU - Ortiz, Pedro J.
AU - Málaga, Germán
AU - del Carpio-Toia, Agueda Muñoz
AU - Alvarez-Valdivia, M. G.
AU - Juárez- Huanca, C.
AU - Ciudad- Fernandez, L.
AU - Bruner- Meléndez, R.
AU - Samaniego- Mojica, W.
AU - Perez- Rafael, E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Objective: To describe the use of medicinal plants in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in public healthcare centers in Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with CKD in healthcare centers of three Peruvian regions: Lima, Arequipa, and Ucayali. A structured questionnaire which included socio-demographic data, medical antecedents and characteristics of the use of medicinal plants was used. Prevalence ratios (PR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using crude Poisson regressions with robust variances. Results: A total of 599 patients with CKD were evaluated, of which 300 (50.1%) reported the use of medicinal plants (160 [30.3%] used these plants for CKD), 379 reported that medicinal plants were not harmful, while 166 (27.8%) stopped using allopathic medicine to use medicinal plants only. In the adjusted analysis, the frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was similar between Lima and Arequipa but was lower in Ucayali than in Lima (PR: 0.32, 95% CI: 0.14 – 0.76). In addition, a higher frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was observed in patients with more advanced stages of CKD (PR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.06–2.26) and in patients who were aware they had CKD (PR: 2.79 95% CI: 1.39–5.63). Conclusions: Half of the patients used medicinal plants and about one-third used it for CKD. This use was lower in Ucayali and higher in both the patients who knew they had CKD and those with more advanced stages of the disease. Given these results, physicians should ask and inform regarding medicinal plants consumption to their CKD patients.
AB - Objective: To describe the use of medicinal plants in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in public healthcare centers in Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with CKD in healthcare centers of three Peruvian regions: Lima, Arequipa, and Ucayali. A structured questionnaire which included socio-demographic data, medical antecedents and characteristics of the use of medicinal plants was used. Prevalence ratios (PR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using crude Poisson regressions with robust variances. Results: A total of 599 patients with CKD were evaluated, of which 300 (50.1%) reported the use of medicinal plants (160 [30.3%] used these plants for CKD), 379 reported that medicinal plants were not harmful, while 166 (27.8%) stopped using allopathic medicine to use medicinal plants only. In the adjusted analysis, the frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was similar between Lima and Arequipa but was lower in Ucayali than in Lima (PR: 0.32, 95% CI: 0.14 – 0.76). In addition, a higher frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was observed in patients with more advanced stages of CKD (PR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.06–2.26) and in patients who were aware they had CKD (PR: 2.79 95% CI: 1.39–5.63). Conclusions: Half of the patients used medicinal plants and about one-third used it for CKD. This use was lower in Ucayali and higher in both the patients who knew they had CKD and those with more advanced stages of the disease. Given these results, physicians should ask and inform regarding medicinal plants consumption to their CKD patients.
KW - Chronic kidney disease
KW - Healthcare centers
KW - Medical care
KW - Medicinal plants
KW - Peru
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ctim.2019.102215
DO - 10.1016/j.ctim.2019.102215
M3 - Article
C2 - 31780000
AN - SCOPUS:85074025693
SN - 0965-2299
VL - 47
JO - Complementary Therapies in Medicine
JF - Complementary Therapies in Medicine
M1 - 102215
ER -