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Unless otherwise stated, search terms are free text terms; MeSH = Medical subject heading (Medline medical index term); exp = exploded MeSH; the dollar sign ($) stands for any character(s); the question mark (?) = to substitute for one or no characters; tw = text word; pt = publication type; sh = MeSH; adj = adjacent. MEDLINE: A) Diabetes mellitus, general 1 exp diabetes mellitus/ 2 diabet$.tw. 3 IDDM.tw. 4 NIDDM.tw. 5 MODY.tw. 6 insulin$ secret$ dysfunc$.tw. 7 impaired glucose toleran$.tw. 8 exp glucose intolerance/ 9 glucose intoleran$.tw. 10 exp insulin resistance/ 11 insulin$ resist$.tw. 12 (non insulin$ depend$ or noninsulin$ depend$ or non insulin?depend$ or noninsulin?depend$).tw. 13 (insulin? depend$ or insulin?depend$).tw 14 metabolic$ syndrom$.tw. 15 (pluri metabolic$ syndrom$ or plurimetabolic$ syndrom$).tw. 16 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 17 exp diabetes insipidus/ 18 diabet$ insipidus.tw. 19 17 or 18 20 16 not 19 B) Controlled trials* 21 randomized‐controlled trial.pt. 22 controlled‐clinical trial.pt. 23 randomized‐controlled‐trials.sh. 24 random allocation.sh. 25 double‐blind method.sh. 26 single‐blind method.sh. 27 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25 or 26 28 animal.sh. 29 human.sh. 30 28 not 29 31 27 not 30 C) Glycaemic index or glycaemic load 32 (diet adj5 glyc?emic$).tw. 33 Glycemic Index/ or glyc?emic index.tw. 34 (all bran or wholegrain or pasta or oat$ or apple$ or appricot$ or bean$ or lentil$ or wheat bran or barley porridge or raw oats or basmati rice).ti, ab. 35 (gi adj10 (diet or food or carbohydrate$)).tw. 36 (food adj5 glyc?emic$).tw. 37 (carbohydrate$ adj5 (blood glucose or blood sugar) adj5 (low or less$ or high$)).tw. 38 (puls$ adj10 (diet or food)).tw. 39 lentil$.tw. 40 or/32‐39 41 dietary carbohydrates/ 42 blood glucose.sh,rn,rw. 43 41 and 42 44 40 or 43 D) Systematic reviews, meta‐analyses, health‐technology assessment reports 45 exp meta‐analysis/ 46 exp Review Literature/ 47 meta‐analysis.pt. 48 systematic review$.tw. 49 search$.tw. 50 medline.tw. 51 cochrane database of systematic reviews.jn. 52 45 or 46 or 47 or 48 or 49 or 50 or 51 53 letter.pt. 54 comment.pt. 55 editorial.pt. 56 historical‐article.pt. 57 53 or 54 or 55 or 56 58 52 not 57 59 exp Technology Assessment, Biomedical/ 60 HTA.tw. 61 (health technology adj6 assessment$).tw. 62 (biomedical adj6 technology assessment$).tw. 63 60 or 61 or 62 64 58 or 63 65 31 or 64 66 20 and 44 67 65 and 66 * Robinson KA, Dickersin K. Development of a highly sensitive search strategy for the retrieval of reports of controlled trials using PubMed. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:150‐3.