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.