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ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2017

Effectiveness of

Hossein Nili-Ahmadabadi, Mohammad Hassan Emami, Navid Omidifar

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Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Non-Chinese herbal medicines for functional dyspepsia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hossein Nili-AhmadabadiDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran.
Mohammad Hassan EmamiGastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Poursina Hakim Research Institute for Health Care Development, Isfahan, Iran.
Navid OmidifarMolecular Clinical Microbiology Subdivision, Clinical Pathology Division, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CONTEXT AND

aimsWe aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of hydroalcoholic extract of PATIENTS AND

methodsIn this randomized, double-blind clinical trial, patients with symptomatic dyspepsia who had an endoscopic evaluation for dyspepsia were included and randomized into two groups. One Group (A) received drug extract with a dose of 100 mg twice a day for 10 days. Group B, as a control group, received placebo. Immediately and 2 months after intervention, the patients were followed up, and the characteristics of their dyspepsia (severity and frequency), endoscopic and pathologic findings were reevaluated and compared.

resultsIn this trial, 13 and ten patients participated in the study in Groups A and B, respectively. Two months after intervention, ten (76.9%) and six (60%) participants referred for follow-up and endoscopic evaluation. There were no significant changes in clinical presentations after intervention (

conclusionsThe findings of this trial indicated that hydroalcoholic extract of

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ClinicaldyspepsiaendoscopypathologyQuercus brantii

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PMID28852653
PMCPMC5561684

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