Borago side effects, by duration, gender and age (a phase IV clinical study of FDA data)

female:

1. Abdominal discomfort
2. Abdominal pain
3. Activities of daily living impaired
4. Alopecia (absence of hair from areas of the body)
5. Asthenia (weakness)
6. Back pain
7. Body temperature fluctuation
8. Cardiac arrest
9. Choking (mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs)
10. Constipation

male:

1. Anal fissure
2. Anal abscess
3. Atrial fibrillation (fibrillation of the muscles of the atria of the heart)
4. Abnormal behaviour
5. Asthenia (weakness)
6. Death
7. Exposure to toxic agent
8. Gynaecomastia (enlargement of the gland tissue of the male breast)
9. Mitral valve prolapse (heart's mitral valve doesn't work well)
10. Thrombosis (formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel)

0-1:

n/a

2-9:

n/a

10-19:

n/a

20-29:

1. Body temperature fluctuation

30-39:

1. Abdominal discomfort
2. Anal abscess

40-49:

1. Abdominal discomfort
2. Abdominal pain
3. Alopecia (absence of hair from areas of the body)
4. Choking (mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs)
5. Injection site pain

50-59:

1. Activities of daily living impaired
2. Asthenia (weakness)
3. Back pain
4. Exposure to toxic agent

60+:

1. Anal fissure
2. Abnormal behaviour
3. Death
4. Mitral valve prolapse (heart's mitral valve doesn't work well)
5. Thrombosis (formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel)

< 1 month:

n/a

1 - 6 months:

n/a

6 - 12 months:

n/a

1 - 2 years:

n/a

2 - 5 years:

n/a

5 - 10 years:

n/a

10+ years:

1. Lymphopenia (an abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood)

not specified:

1. Abdominal discomfort
2. Alopecia (absence of hair from areas of the body)
3. Back pain
4. Body temperature fluctuation
5. Cardiac arrest
6. Choking (mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs)
7. Constipation
8. Dyspnoea (difficult or laboured respiration)
9. Exposure to toxic agent
10. Gynaecomastia (enlargement of the gland tissue of the male breast)