Medicine
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Meta Analysis
Meditation-based intervention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the meditation-based intervention on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ⋯ This study was conducted to verify the effects of meditation-based intervention on OCD. The results suggested that combined treatment with medication and meditation-based intervention was more effective in treating OCD than medication alone; the positive effects of meditation-based intervention may be greater than the effects of other non-medication interventions. However, the lack of significant difference in the follow-up indicates that long-term effect of meditation-based interventions is unclear.
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Meta Analysis
Association between TGF-β gene polymorphism and myopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
The present study was conducted to determine the association of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) gene polymorphism and myopia. ⋯ Our systematic review and meta-analysis found that TGF-β1 rs4803455 and rs1800469 were correlated with myopia.
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Meta Analysis
Blade needle therapy versus conventional acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: A meta-analysis.
This study investigated the hypothesis that the efficacy of blade needle therapy for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is superior to that of conventional acupuncture. In addition, the efficacy of blade needle therapy versus conventional acupuncture for the treatment of KOA was analyzed in a meta-analysis. ⋯ The efficacy of blade needle treatment for KOA is superior to that of conventional acupuncture, but more high-quality studies are needed for future validation due to the low proportion of high-quality studies included and the possible bias factor.
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Meta Analysis
Association between rs735482 polymorphism and risk of cancer: A meta-analysis of 10 case-control studies.
Several studies have inspected the relationship between rs735482 polymorphism and the risk of some human cancers, but the findings remain controversial. We designed this meta-analysis to validate the association between rs735482 polymorphism and cancer risk. All articles were published before September 1, 2018 and searched in Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WangFang, and Chinese BioMedical databases, STATA 12.0 software was used for statistical analysis, which provides reasonable data and technical support for this article. ⋯ The results of this meta-analysis do not support the association between rs735482 polymorphism and cancer risk. But stratified analysis showed that rs735482 significantly increased the risk of cancer in Chinese while decreased the risk of cancer in Italian. Because of the limited number of samples, larger and well-designed researches are needed to estimate this association in detail.
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Review Case Reports
Successful pregnancy via in vitro fertilization in a primary infertile woman with primary lymphoma of the fallopian tube after surgery: A case report and literature review.
Primary extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphomas of the fallopian tube is extremely rare. It is a great challenge for fertility and gynecology doctors to manage such cases and also fulfil the reproductive demands of these young women. ⋯ More care should be taken when the newly diagnosed mass is combined with a rather high serum CA-125 level. Although endometriosis and ovarian cancer are more common, lymphoma cannot be ruled out.