Effectiveness and safety of selected dietary supplements Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague Student: Kateřina Smolíková Tutor: PharmDr. Jitka Pokladníková, Ph.D. Introduction: The market for dietary supplements in recent years has seen a noticeable upswing and supplements become for some people part of their daily lives, which could mean potential risks. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness and risks of selected dietary supplements containing Vaccinium macrocarpon, Serenoa repens, Cimicifuga racemosa, Glycine max and Silybum marianum. At the same time, the aim of this work was to evaluate the safety of selected supplements from the point of view of content of additives, check undesirable effects of harmful additives and compare them with the identified undesirable effects of medicinal plants. Methods: Efficacy and safety were assessed on the basis of scientific studies. It has been rated 5 best-selling groups of food supplements in 2011. The list of 100 best-selling nutritional supplements in the Czech Republic were given to us by one pharmacy chain. From the most selling supplements was made a list of the most frequently occurring substances content which was sent to the Ministry of Health with a request to add...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:336636 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Smolíková, Kateřina |
| Contributors | Pokladníková, Jitka, Marešová, Helena |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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