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Effects of administering berberine alone or in combination on type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Frontiers in pharmacology
2024
15:1455534
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- PubMed
- PMID 39640489
- PubMed Central
- PMC11617981
- Funding
- Supported by a Chinese traditional-medicine inheritance-studio program and the Shandong Natural Science Foundation.
- Competing interests
- The authors declared no competing interests in the publication.
Study snapshot
| Design | Systematic review and meta-analysis |
|---|---|
| Model | Published human studies |
| Sample | 50 studies; 4150 participants |
| Intervention | Evidence synthesis; interventions and comparators vary across included studies |
| Duration | No new treatment; included-study durations vary |
| Endpoints | Pooled clinical or metabolic outcomes; Risk of bias and heterogeneity; Adverse-event reporting |
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