Table 5 |
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Antihistamines co-administered with chloroquine over a twenty-year period at a private hospital in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria |
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Promethazine |
Chlorpheniramine |
Cyproheptadine |
Others |
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|
YEAR |
N |
F |
N |
F |
N |
F |
N |
F |
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|
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1983 |
170 |
74% |
11 |
5% |
3 |
3% |
45 |
20% |
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|
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1985 |
209 |
75.7% |
18 |
6.5% |
1 |
0.4% |
48 |
17.4% |
|
|
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1987 |
181 |
63.7% |
39 |
13.7% |
4 |
1.4% |
60 |
21.1% |
|
|
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1989 |
86 |
49.1% |
70 |
40% |
0 |
0 |
19 |
10.9% |
|
|
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|
1992 |
103 |
52.0% |
75 |
37.8% |
0 |
0 |
20 |
10.1% |
|
|
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1995 |
51 |
43.2% |
55 |
46.6 |
3 |
2.5% |
15 |
12.7% |
|
|
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|
1997 |
62 |
44.3% |
48 |
34.3% |
8 |
5.7% |
22 |
15.7% |
|
|
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N = No. of prescriptions evaluated F = Frequency of prescription |
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Gbotosho et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8:313 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-313 |
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