to identify the antidiabetic plants of iran, a systematic review of the published literature on the efficacy of iranian medicinal plant for glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was conducted. we performed an electronic literature search of medline, science direct, scopus, proquest, ebsco, googlescholar, sid, cochrane library database, from 1966 up to june 2010. the search t...

conclusions there is not enough evidence to support or refute the routine use of fish oil supplements during pregnancy for the prevention or treatment of diabetes. it is suggested that further randomized controlled trials be conducted to evaluate the role of fish oil supplementation in pregnancy. context one of the most common complications of pregnancy is gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm), w...

considering the importance of randomized clinical trials (rcts) in the evidence-based approach, the objective of this study was critical appraisal of reporting rcts in iranian dental journals.after adequate searching, 113 rct articles published during 2003-2010 were reviewed for quality of reporting with the consort scale. the quality of each paper was assessed on 20.although statistical analys...

introduction: most physicians consider abstracts to give a general idea about the full text of an article. abstracts, as summative and informative parts, contain main information of papers. they also point out the content of papers to readers. the importance of abstracts leads journals to be stricter about their structure and content. this study aimed to assess the abstracts of randomized contr...

In combination with randomization, blinding or masking is an important factor in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), particularly in trials that assess therapeutic effects. Here an attempt is made to explain blindness and why it is important. In clinical trials, blinding is defined as the condition imposed on a study in which study participants, health care providers and assessors collecting o...