약물-건강기능식품 상호작용과 약물 장기 복용에 따른 영양소 결핍현상에 대한 고찰

A Review on Interaction between Drug and Healthy Functional Food, and the Nutrient Deficiency as the Side Effects of Prescription Drugs

Drug-food interaction is defined as an interaction between a drug and nutritional elements. The interaction may increase or decrease the effectiveness and/or the adverse reaction of the drug or vice versa. The Failure to identify and properly manage drug-nutrient interactions can lead to serious consequences and this predisposes the patient to treatment failure. In the present review, we discussed the recent progress in the field of research on both the interaction between drug and health-functional food, especially in major chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes mellitus and the mechanism of nutrient deficiency as the side effects of prescription drugs, in order to make us try to suggest the safe and efficacious pharmacotherapy through highlighting the issues surrounding drug-food interaction and the consequences of these interactions for human being.