{"id":232181,"date":"2022-09-07T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=232181"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:38:00","slug":"indians-use-antibiotics-excessively-azithromycin-on-top-lancet-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/indians-use-antibiotics-excessively-azithromycin-on-top-lancet-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians Use Antibiotics Excessively, Azithromycin On Top: Lancet Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Indians Use Antibiotics Excessively, Azithromycin On Top: Lancet Study\" alt=\"Indians Use Antibiotics Excessively, Azithromycin On Top: Lancet Study\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2018-11\/h8f9bv38_antibiotics_625x300_12_November_18.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The study said there are over 10,000 brands of antibiotics in India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A study has highlighted the excessive use of antibiotics like azithromycin by Indians during and before COVID-19 pandemic. The research, published in <em>Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia<\/em>, said that most of these drugs were not approved by the central drug regulator and called for &#8220;significant policy and regulatory reform&#8221;. The research was published in the reputed journal on September 1. It said that the study is important because inappropriate use of antibiotics is a significant driver of antibiotic resistance in India.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lansea\/article\/PIIS2772-3682(22)00030-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The study<\/a> also said that an overlap in regulatory powers between national and state-level agencies complicate antibiotics availability, sales, and consumption in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the per-capita private-sector consumption rate of antibiotics in India is relatively low compared to many countries, India consumes a large volume of broad-spectrum antibiotics that should ideally be used sparingly,&#8221; the study said.<\/p>\n<p>The study also acknowledged the contribution made by Aashna Mehta, from New Delhi-based Public Health Foundation of India.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers said they analysed data from PharmaTrac, a private-sector drug sales dataset gathered from a panel of 9,000 that are representative of sales figures across India. The metric used defined daily dose (DDD) to calculate the per capita private-sector consumption of antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>The findings showed that total DDDs consumed in 2019 was 5,071 million, translating to 10.4 DDD per 1,000 population per day. &#8220;Twelve antibiotic molecules constituted 75% of the total consumption. Azithromycin was the most consumed antibiotic molecule (640 million DDDs, 12.6%), followed by cefixime (516 million, 10.2%). Azithromycin 500mg tablet was the most consumed formulation (384 million DDDs, 7.6%), followed by cefixime 200 mg tablet (331 million DDDs, 6.5%),&#8221; the researchers said in the study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formulations listed in the NLEM (national list of essential medicines) contributed 49.0% (2486 million DDDs); FDCs contributed 34.0% (1722 million), and unapproved formulations contributed 47.1% (2408 million DDDs),&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that there were 1,098 unique formulations and 10,100 unique products (brands) of antibiotics in India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/indians-use-antibiotics-excessively-azithromycin-on-top-lancet-study-3322807\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The study said there are over 10,000 brands of antibiotics in India. A study has highlighted the excessive use of antibiotics like azithromycin by Indians during and before COVID-19 pandemic. The research, published in Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia, said that most of these drugs were not approved by the central drug regulator and called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10565,274714,274715,274716,194,37461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}