Study	Reason for exclusion
Adeniyi 1979	Children had nephrotic syndrome secondary to Plasmodium malariae (31/36)
Arora 2002	Adult patients
Bhaumik 2002	Mixed population of adults and children; unable to separate data
Buyukcelik 2002	Study of gemfibrozil on lipid profiles in children with nephrotic syndrome; ineligible renal pathology as all except one had MPGN
Hiraoka 2000	SSNS patients
Iyengar 2006	SSNS patients
Jung 1990	Mixed population; unable to separate data
Kano 2003	Included patients did not have nephrotic syndrome but moderate proteinuria with normal serum albumin levels
Koshikawa 1993	Adult patients
Kumar 2004a	Adults patients
Li 2006g	Adult patients
Ren 2011	Adult patients
Ren 2013	Adult patients
Saito 2014	Adult patients
Shibasaki 2004	Not clear if paediatric patients were included and these could not be separated from adult patients; includes patients with non MCD or FSGS pathology
Walker 1990a	Adult patients
Zhao 2013a	Includes both steroid‐resistant and steroid dependent patients and results cannot be separated

MCD ‐ minimal change disease; FSGS ‐ focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; MPGN ‐ membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis; RCT ‐ randomised controlled trial; SSNS ‐ steroid‐sensitive nephrotic syndrome