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. 2024 May 16;43(1):81–91. doi: 10.5534/wjmh.230280

Table 1. MEDLINE search strategya.

Design search terms
1. Control*
2. Random*
Intervention search terms
3. Acetylcysteine
4. Alpha-tocopherol
5. Alpha-tocotrienol
6. Antioxidant*
7. Arginine
8. Ascorb*
9. Astaxanthin
10. Bilberry extract
11. Carnitine
12. Carotenoid*
13. Coenzyme Q10
14. Co enzyme Q10
15. CoQ 10
16. Curcumin
17. Flavonoid*
18. Folacin
19. Folate
20. Folic acid
21. Folvite
22. Ginseng
23. Glutathione
24. Green tea
25. L-acetylcarnitine
26. L-arginine
27. L-carnitine
28. L-citrulline
29. Levocarnitine
30. Lutein
31. Lycopene
32. Melatonin
33. N-acetylcysteine
34. Polyphenol*
35. Pomegranate
36. Pycnogenol
37. Quercetin
38. Radical scavenger
39. Resveratrol
40. Selenium
41. Ubiquinone
42. Vitamin C
43. Vitamin E
44. Zinc
Diagnosis search terms
45. Androgen deficien*
46. ED
47. Erectile dysfunction
48. Erectile function
49. Hypogonadism
50. IIEF
51. Impotence
52. International Index of Erectile Function
53. Sexual dysfunction
54. Sexual function
Combination terms
55. or/1–2
56. or/3–44
57. or/45–54
58. and/55–57

aThe ‘*’ represents a wildcard symbol used in a search query to represent end truncation.