The Impact of Herbal Drug Use on Adverse Drug Reaction Profiles of Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Zimbabwe

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of study patients. Unless specified, figures represent frequencies and percentages.

Characteristic	𝑁	%
Age (mean ± SD)	40.8	9.2
Gender
Male	137	35.3
Female	251	64.7
Comorbidities
Diabetes mellitus	5	1.3
Hypertension	67	17.3
Anaemia	34	8.8
Asthma	21	5.4
Epilespy	4	1.0
Malaria	155	40.0
Tuberculosis	131	33.8
Shingles	125	32.2
ARV regimen
AZT/3TC/EFV	10	2.6
AZT/3TC/NVP	36	9.3
D4T/3TC/EFV	12	3.1
D4T/3TC/NVP	330	85.1
Number of herbs per patient (mean ± SD)	7.9	4.4