Study	Glucocorticosteroids			Placebo/no intervention
	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	n
Porter 1971	44.6	4.4	11	49.5	8.9	9
Campra 1973	43.1	11.1	22	42.7	8.1	28
Blitzer 1977	47.2	—	17	48.4	—	16
Maddrey 1978	40	8.5	25	42.3	11.1	32
Shumaker 1978	45.5	—	15	44.5	—	13
Depew 1980	49.8	2.1	15	48.2	2.3	13
Mendenhall 1984	51.5	8.2	90	50.4	9.2	88
Bories 1987	41	—	24	49	—	21
Carithers 1989	43.1	2	36	44.4	1.7	31
Ramond 1992	48.1	1.3	33	48.2	1.6	32
De 2014	42.7	0.4	31	41.3	7.8	31
Thursz 2015	48.6	9.8	277	47.9	9.2	276
Thursz 2015	49.3	10.6	274	48.8	10.3	276
—: data not reported; n: number of participants; SD: standard deviation.