The role of IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphism in the development of hypertension has been inclusive. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to determine whether there is an association between IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphism and hypertension risk. PubMed, Embase and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) were searched till Jun 2017. A total of 7 case-control studies with 1231 cases and 1122 cont...

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physicians frequently search bibliographic databases, such as MEDLINE via PubMed, for best evidence for patient care. The objective of this study was to develop and test search filters to help physicians efficiently retrieve literature related to dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis) from all other articles indexed in PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Embase. DESIGN...