[PDF] Top 20 Effects of simvastatin on serum adiponectin: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

... chronic simvastatin treatment on adiponectin were not fully understood at this stage, although the findings of some experimental studies may provide some evi- ...that simvastatin could significantly ... See full document

... criteria: randomized controlled study design; patient age 18–75 years; LDL cholesterol levels $130 mg/dL and triglyceride levels #600 mg/dL; and intervention consisting of pitavastatin versus ...included ... See full document

... the patient on the results should be evaluated in the future. Moreover, results of subsequent meta-regression and subgroup analyses suggest that gender difference may exist regard- ing the influence of pravastatin ... See full document

... the effects of physical activity specifically on work- ing memory performance (WMP) in physically and cognitively healthy individuals and was warranted for sev- eral ...summary analysis of studies while ... See full document

... years). Trials which compared vitamin D3 supplementation with a placebo, or compared calcium + vitamin D3 supplementation with calcium were ...uncontrolled trials, without a placebo group, or involved ... See full document

... psoriasis, and hence they were not incorporated into our data analysis [14, 16, 19, 23, 24]. Most of them (four out of the five studies) did not support the beneficial effect of fish oil on psoriasis [16, 19, 23, ... See full document

... patients randomized, analyzed and dropping out (per group); age; gender; results on the main outcome measures; important secondary outcomes and responder ...tions. Trials were considered to have lower risk ... See full document

... In this study, we included 10 RCTs, 5 of which used ACEI, 4 of which used ARB, and 2 of which used ACEI+ARB. We first explored the effect of RASI on Scr levels in patients with IgAN. Our results showed that neither ACEI ... See full document

... All outcomes were expressed as RR with 95% CI. The Cochrane Q x 2 test was used to detect heterogeneity of the effects, significant heterogeneity was defined as a P value of <0.05. A fixed-effects model ... See full document

... the effects of the depth of anesthesia on short- or long-term ...the effects of the depth of anesthesia on POCD and on postoperative S100-β protein ...20 randomized controlled trials ... See full document

... subgroup analysis. We found no difference in the effects on lipid profile when comparing <2 g EPA + DHA supplement with ≥2 g, therefore a high dose of fish oil supplement for lowering lipid levels might ... See full document

... separate randomized placebo-controlled trials re- ported the effects of vitamin C on respiratory symptoms during and after heavy physical stress and, according to a ... See full document

... blind randomized controlled trials with baseline and after treatment values for synthesizing risk (mean) ...of serum total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high ... See full document

... the analysis was conducted under the random- effects ...Sensitivity analysis was performed to resolve significant heterogeneity and to ensure that our results were not affected by the weights of ... See full document

... this meta-analysis that should be taken into ...treatment effects compared to larger ...of trials, and types of epilepsy, all would have influence on the pooled ...this ... See full document

... therapy effects on treatment, descriptive studies, studies involving animal testing, conflicting before and after data (such as, the sum of the data not matching the total), and reports without statistical ... See full document

... written randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that looked at effects of vitamin D3 supplementation on muscle strength in healthy athletes were searched using three databases (PubMed, Embase and ... See full document

... We used the RevMan (Version 5.1; Cochrane Collabor- ation, Oxford, UK) and Stata software (version 12.0; Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA) for the meta- analysis and statistical analysis. ... See full document

... and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials are to evalu- ate the effects of HMEs and HHs in preventing artificial airway occlusion and pneumonia, and on mortality in adult ... See full document

... al. Effects of exercise training on cardiorespiratory fitness and biomarkers of cardiometabolic health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled ...E. ... See full document