Table 1.
Search terms and results obtained from different databases
| Search terms | Database 1 Pubmed | Overlapping Pubmed articles | Total number of articles from Pubmed | Database 2 Cochrane | Database 3 Medline |
| Gastric electrical stimulation and obesity | 145 | 0 | 145 | 51 | 91 |
| TANTALUS® and obesity | 12 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 61 |
| Enterra® and obesity | 6 | 6 | 0 | 01 | 21 |
| Transcend® and obesity | 13 | 5 | 8 | 01 | 41 |
| Implantable gastric stimulator and obesity | 22 | 12 | 10 | 31 | 21 |
| Retrograde gastric electrical stimulation and obesity | 13 | 3 | 10 | 01 | 21 |
| Gastric pacing and obesity | 26 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 81 |
| Neural gastric electrical stimulation and obesity | 6 | 6 | 0 | 01 | 31 |
| Total number of articles after duplicate removal | 184 | ||||
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Duplicate articles (i.e., these articles are already included in the results of the Pubmed literature search).