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.