Experiment 393684
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Panax ginseng (ARALIACEAE) |
| Citation | YUN,TK: CHOI,SY:. (1998). NON-ORGAN SPECIFIC CANCER PREVENTION OF GINSENG: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN KOREA.. 27(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A 5-YEAR PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF 4634 PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 40 WHO WERE GINSENG USERS. WE STUDIED 4634 PEOPLE OVER 40 YS OLD WHO COMPLETED A QUESTIONNAIRE ON GINSENG INTAKE. IN A ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT GINSENG INTAKE, WE ASKED THEM TO SPECIFY THEIR AGE AT INITIAL INTAKE, THEIR FREQUENCY AND DURATION OF GINSENG INTAKE, THE KIND OF GINSENG. ETC. MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION WAS USED TO ESTIMATE RELATIVE RISKS (RR) WHEN CONTROLLING SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR COVARIATES GINSENG CONSUMERS HAD A DECREASED RISK (RR = 0.40. 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL [CI]: 0.28-0.56) COMPARED WITH NON-CONSUMERS. ON THE TYPE OF GINSENG, THE RR WAS -.31 (95% CI: 0.13-0.74) FOR FRESH GINSENG EXTRACT CONSUMERS AND 0.34 (95% CI: 0.20-0.53 FOR CONSUMERS OF MULTIPLE COMBINATIONS. THERE WAS NO CANCER DEATH AMONG 24 RED GINSENG CONSUMERS. THERE WAS A DECREASED RISK WITH A RISE IN THE FREQUENCY OF GINSENG INTAKE, SHOWING A DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP. THE RR OF GINSENG CONSUMERS WERE 0.33 (95% CI: 0.18-0.57) IN GASTRIC CANCER AND 0.30 (95% CI: 0.14-0.65) IN LUNG CANCER. AMONG GINSENG PREPARATIONS. FRESH GINSENG EXTRACT CONSUMERS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH A DECREASED RISK OF GASTRIC CANCER (RR = 0.33. 95% CI: 0.12 -0.88). THESE RESULTS STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT PANAX GINSENG C.A.MEYER HAS NON-ORGAN SPECIFIC PREVENTIVE EFFECT AGAINST CANCER, PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE PREVIOUS CASE-CONTROL STUDIES. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |