background dyslipidemia is a major risk for cardiovascular diseases. the aim of this study is to review the effects of nutraceuticals to modify lipid disorders in children. materials and methods the literature research was conducted in embase, medline, pubmed, scopus, isi web of science, and cochrane library from 2002 until january 2015. the following keywords were used: dyslipidemia, hyperlipi...

OBJECTIVE To carry out a metaanalysis of antidepressant studies to calculate the effect sizes for antidepressant effect in depressive disorder. METHOD A metaanalysis of all antidepressant studies that included an active comparison drug as well as placebo was used to calculate the effect size. Articles were selected from a MEDLINE search for the period January 1966 to June 1995. Forty-nine stu...

Sir, I read with great interest the article on epidemiological findings on the prevalence of mental disorders in India (Ganguli,2000). As we do not have epidemilogical studies with sound methodology metaanalysis of the existing studies will definitely help to provide baseline data of varios mental disorders in India. In the metaanalysis the author has included studies from 1967 to 1993. Regrett...

Metaanalysis is a method that incorporates the pooling of previously published results to produce more statistically significant results. We used metaanalysis to examine the role of a new cardiac marker, cardiac troponin T (cTnT), in patients with ischemic heart disease. Metaanalysis of six articles and one abstract on cTnT showed that this marker was just as sensitive as creatine kinase MB iso...

2008;133;756-766 Chest Bradley S. Quon, Wen Qi Gan and Don D. Sin Review and Metaanalysis Exacerbations of COPD: A Systematic Contemporary Management of Acute http://chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/3/756 and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ). ISSN: 0012-3692. http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/repr...

There have been many articles published regarding the benefits of HRT and BHRT; particularly in breast cancer, prostate cancer, cardiovascular protection, and bone building/osteoarthritis. The purpose of this white paper is to summarize the results of these articles by each disease entity. Please note, however, that most of the articles did not specify HRT or BHRT, but the hormone therapy itsel...

Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies allow calculation of pooled estimates of accuracy with increased precision and examination of differences in accuracy between tests or subgroups of studies. Recently, several advances have been made in the methods used in performing systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies, most notably in how to assess the methodological quality o...