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. 2018 May 10;2018(5):CD012069. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012069.pub2
Gastrointestinal system
Study Symptom Adverse events/total number of participants
Abdominal pain
Abbasi 2011 Abdominal pain 8/20
Akhondzadeh 2003 Abdominal pain 3/10
Akhondzadeh 2004 Abdominal pain 4/20
Amiri 2008 Abdominal pain 7/27
Ardic 2014 Stomach ache 16/101
Arnold 2004 Abdominal pain 15/89
Arnold 2010 Abdominal pain 7/150
Atzori 2009 Stomach pain 3/129
Barrickman 1995 Stomach ache 1/15
Berek 2011 Abdominal pain 12/762
Blader 2010 Abdominal pain 6/65
Chou 2012b Abdominal pain 12/230
Cortese 2015 Abdominal pain 22/1426
Davari‐Ashtiani 2010 Abdominal pain 1/16
Dirksen 2002 Stomach ache 14/287
Dittmann 2014 Upper abdominal pain 4/195
Döpfner 2011a, OBSEER Gastrointestinal pain 9/777
Döpfner 2011b Gastrointestinal pain 6/113
Efron 1997 Stomach aches 40/123
El‐Fiky 2014 Stomach aches 9/31
Findling 2009 Abdominal pain 27/157
Garg 2014 Abdominal pain 3/27
Gau 2006 Stomach aches 8/32
Gerwe 2009 Abdominal pain 10/306
Golubchik 2011 Abdominal pain 1/9
Grcevich 2001 Stomach ache 2/75
Green 2011 Stomach aches 9/34
Greenhill 1983 Stomach aches 4/7
Gucuyener 2003 Stomach ache 14/119
Haertling 2015 Abdominal pain 4/239
Hammerness 2009 Stomach ache 2/57
Hazell 2003 Stomach pain 6/10
Işeri 2007 Abdominal pain 3/20
Jafarinia 2012 Abdominal pain 6/20
Kemner 2005 (FOCUS) Abdominal pain 33/850
Khajehpiri 2014 Abdominal pain 9/71
Kim 2010 Abdominal pain 1/27
Kordon 2011 Abdominal pain 11/541
Kratochvil 2002 Abdominal pain 7/25
Lee 2007 Abdominal pain 6/110
Li 2011 Abdominal pain 12/34
Lyon 2010 Stomach discomfort 2/10
Maayan 2009 Gastrointestinal pain 2/8
Maia 2008 Stomach ache 2/31
McCracken 2016 Abdominal pain 28/61
Mohammadi 2004 Abdominal pain 0/11
Mohammadi 2010 Abdominal pain 8/19
Mohammadi 2012a Stomach ache 5/23
Mohammadi 2012b Abdominal pain 5/20
Na 2013 Stomach ache (abdominal pain) 19/103
Perera 2010 Abdominal pain 15/102
Peyre 2012a Abdominal pain 7/121
Pierce 2010 Abdominal pain 3/71
Remschmidt 2005 Abdominal pain 3/89
Sahin 2014 Abdominal pain 7/30
Sangal 2006 Abdominal pain 4/79
Schulz 2010 Abdominal pain 9/145
Shang 2015 Abdominal pain 4/66
Silva 2004 Stomach ache 3/22
Song 2012 Abdominal pain 20/116
Steele 2006 Abdominal pain 10/72
Su 2015 Abdominal pain 10/205
Tasdelen 2015 Abdominal pain 4/17
Thorell 2009 Stomach aches 2/79
Valdizán Usón 2004 Abdominal pain 1/155
Wang 2007 Abdominal pain 15/166
Warshaw 2010 Abdominal pain 9/260
Weiss 2007 Abdominal pain 5/79
Wigal 2013 Abdominal pain 17/39
Wigal 2015 Abdominal pain 29/200
Wilens 2005 Abdominal pain 45/229
Wilens 2006 Abdominal pain 9/220
Wilens 2008 Abdominal pain 15/127
Yildiz 2010 Stomach ache 6/47
Yildiz 2011 Abdominal pain 3/11
Zarinara 2010 Abdominal pain 3/18
Zelnik 2015 Abdominal pain 36/128
Zheng 2011 Stomach ache 140/1154
Çetin 2015 Stomach ache 3/61
Constipation
Ardic 2014 Constipation 10/101
Khajehpiri 2014 Constipation 4/71
Mohammadi 2004 Constipation 2/11
Shang 2015 Constipation 1/66
Decreased appetite
Abbas 2006 Loss of appetite 2/90
Abbasi 2011 Loss of appetite 12/20
Akhondzadeh 2003 Decreased appetite 5/10
Akhondzadeh 2004 Decreased appetite 8/20
Altin 2013 Decreased appetite 27/221
Amiri 2008 Decreased appetite 26/27
Ardic 2014 Decreased appetite 47/101
Arnold 2010 Loss of appetite 11/150
Atzori 2009 Decreased appetite 27/129
Blader 2010 Decreased appetite 13/65
Chazan 2011 Decreased appetite 118/205
Chou 2012b Decreased appetite 95/230
Cortese 2015 Decreased appetite 213/1426
Coşkun 2010 Decreased appetite 3/7
Davari‐Ashtiani 2010 Loss of appetite 11/16
Dirksen 2002 Decreased appetite 8/287
Dittmann 2014 Lack of appetite 5/195
Döpfner 2011a, OBSEER Decreased appetite 8/777
Döpfner 2011b Decreased appetite 3/113
Efron 1997 Poor appetite 69/123
El‐Fiky 2014 Decreased appetite 12/31
Famularo 1987 Decreased appetite 1/10
Findling 2009 Loss of appetite 81/157
Garg 2014 Decreased appetite 14/27
Gau 2006 Decreased appetite 19/32
Gau 2008 Loss of appetite 128/607
Germinario 2013 Decreased appetite 5/9
Gerwe 2009 Loss of appetite 83/263
Ghanizadeh 2013 Decreased appetite 1/26
Golubchik 2011 Decrease in appetite 4/9
Grcevich 2001 Appetite suppression 5/75
Green 2011 Poor appetite 13/14
Gucuyener 2003 Loss of appetite 23/119
Hammerness 2009 Decreased appetite 19/57
Hazell 2003 Appetite suppression 7/10
Hulvershorn 2012 Decreased appetite 6/25
Işeri 2007 Loss of appetite 3/20
Jafarinia 2012 Decreased appetite 11/20
Johnson 2013 Reduced appetite 26/45
Jung 2007 Appetite loss 16/83
Kemner 2005 (FOCUS) Decreased appetite 49/850
Kim 2010 Decreased appetite 9/27
Kim 2011 Poor appetite 22/97
Kratochvil 2002 Anorexia 6/25
Lakic 2012 Loss of appetite 68/68
Lee 2007 Decreased appetite 31/110
Li 2011 Decreased appetite 13/34
Maayan 2009 Decreased appetite 7/11
Maia 2008 Barkley decreased appetite 19/31
Mayes 1994 Decreased appetite 14/63
McCracken 2016 Decreased appetite 31/61
Miller‐Horn 2008 Decreased appetite 2/23
Mohammadi 2004 Loss of appetite 4/11
Mohammadi 2010 Decreased appetite 17/19
Mohammadi 2012a Loss of appetite 11/23
Mohammadi 2012b Decreased appetite 9/20
Na 2013 Decreased appetite 66/103
Perera 2010 Loss of appetite 51/102
Peyre 2012a Reduced appetite 9/121
Pierce 2010 Decreased appetite 7/71
Poulton 2003 Decreased appetite 12/13
Sahin 2014 Loss of appetite 21/30
Sangal 2006 Decreased appetite 19/79
Shang 2015 Decreased appetite 36/66
Silva 2004 Decreased appetite 7/22
Steele 2006 Decreased appetite 17/60
Su 2015 Decreased appetite 72/205
Tasdelen 2015 Loss of appetite 9/17
Thorell 2009 Loss of appetite 21/79
Valdizán Usón 2004 Loss of appetite 9/155
Valdizán Usón 2013 Appetite and nutrition disorders 68/689
Wang 2007 Decreased appetite 32/166
Warshaw 2010 Decreased appetite 77/260
Wigal 2013 Decreased appetite 21/39
Wigal 2015 Decreased appetite 38/200
Wilens 2005 Appetite suppression 55/229
Wilens 2008 Decreased appetite 35/127
Yalcin 2014 Decreased appetite 28/40
Yatsuga 2014 Decreased appetite 3/50
Yildiz 2010 Loss of appetite 27/47
Zarinara 2010 Decreased appetite 7/18
Zeni 2007 Decreased appetite 53/106
Zheng 2011 Loss of appetite 552/1154
Zheng 2015 Loss of appetite 16/123
Decreased weight
Abbas 2006 Weight loss 2/90
Abbasi 2011 Weight loss 6/20
Amiri 2008 Weight loss 7/27
Ardic 2014 Weight loss 25/101
Arnold 2004 Weight loss 3/76
Arnold 2010 Decreased weight 5/171
Berek 2011 Weight decrease 10/762
Cortese 2015 Weight loss 37/1426
Davari‐Ashtiani 2010 Weight loss 4/16
Dittmann 2014 Weight decrease 3/195
Döpfner 2011b Weight loss 0/113
Findling 2009 Decreased weight 33/157
Grcevich 2001 Weight loss 3/75
Haertling 2015 Weight decreased 3/239
Işeri 2007 Weight loss 2/20
Johnson 2013 Weight loss 9/45
Kordon 2011 Weight decrease 8/541
Kratochvil 2002 Weight loss 2/25
Lakic 2012 Moderate loss of body weight 68/68
Mohammadi 2012a Weight loss 9/23
Remschmidt 2005 Weight decrease 1/105
Sahin 2014 Weight loss 20/30
Song 2012 Weight loss 4/116
Warshaw 2010 Decreased weight 9/260
Wilens 2005 Weight loss 8/407
Yildiz 2010 Weight loss 12/47
Yildiz 2011 Weight loss 5/11
Çetin 2015 Weight loss 1/16
Diarrhoea
Abbasi 2011 Diarrhoea 5/20
Blader 2010 Diarrhoea 2/65
Hammerness 2009 Diarrhoea 3/57
Khajehpiri 2014 Diarrhoea 3/71
Kordon 2011 Diarrhoea 7/541
Kratochvil 2002 Diarrhoea 1/25
Mohammadi 2004 Diarrhoea 0/11
Mohammadi 2010 Diarrhoea 1/19
Dry mouth
Abbasi 2011 Dry mouth 8/20
Amiri 2008 Dry mouth 10/27
Blader 2010 Dry mouth 2/65
Davari‐Ashtiani 2010 Dry mouth 0/16
Işeri 2007 Dry mouth 1/20
Mohammadi 2004 Dry mouth 3/11
Mohammadi 2010 Dry mouth 6/19
Mohammadi 2012a Dry mouth 3/23
Mohammadi 2012b Dry mouth 3/20
Gastrointestinal adverse events
Dittmann 2014 Gastrointestinal disorders 6/247
Gau 2008 Gastrointestinal upset 36/607
Valdizán Usón 2013 Gastrointestinal symptomatology 9/633
Nausea
Abbasi 2011 Nausea 5/20
Akhondzadeh 2003 Nausea 2/14
Akhondzadeh 2004 Nausea 3/20
Amiri 2008 Nausea 4/27
Ardic 2014 Nausea 14/101
Arnold 2004 Nausea 7/76
Barrickman 1995 Nausea 1/18
Chou 2012b Nausea 15/230
Dittmann 2014 Nausea 2/195
Döpfner 2011a, OBSEER Nausea 9/777
Döpfner 2011b Nausea 1/113
Findling 2009 Nausea 20/157
Garg 2014 Nausea 1/27
Ghanizadeh 2013 Nausea + vomiting 1/26
Gucuyener 2003 Nausea 11/119
Guerreiro 1996 Nausea 1/22
Haertling 2015 Nausea 4/239
Hammerness 2009 Nausea 4/57
Işeri 2007 Nausea 1/20
Kemner 2005 (FOCUS) Nausea 9/850
Khajehpiri 2014 Nausea 4/71
Kim 2010 Nausea 1/27
Kordon 2011 Nausea 10/541
Kratochvil 2002 Vomiting + nausea + dyspepsia 4/25
Lee 2007 Nausea 5/110
Lee 2014 Nausea 5/100
Li 2011 Nausea 16/34
Mohammadi 2004 Nausea 0/11
Mohammadi 2010 Nausea 4/19
Na 2013 Nausea 32/103
Pierce 2010 Nausea 3/71
Schulz 2010 Nausea 8/145
Song 2012 Nausea 9/116
Su 2015 Nausea 11/205
Tasdelen 2015 Nausea 1/17
Wang 2007 Nausea 17/166
Warshaw 2010 Nausea 13/260
Wilens 2005 Nausea 7/407
Yildiz 2010 Nausea 9/47
Yildiz 2011 Nausea 5/11
Zarinara 2010 Nausea 5/18
Upset stomach
Arnold 2004 Dyspepsia 6/89
Hulvershorn 2012 Upset stomach 4/25
Na 2013 Dyspepsia 13/103
Vomiting
Arnold 2004 Vomiting 3/76
Dittmann 2014 Vomiting 1/195
Findling 2009 Vomiting 23/157
Jafarinia 2012 Vomiting 3/20
Kemner 2005 (FOCUS) Vomiting 11/850
Lee 2007 Vomiting 8/110
Lee 2014 Vomiting 5/100
Maayan 2009 Vomiting 1/8
Mohammadi 2010 Vomiting 2/19
Mohammadi 2012a Vomiting 3/23
Mohammadi 2012b Vomiting 2/20
Na 2013 Vomiting 7/103
Shang 2015 Vomiting 5/66
Silva 2004 Vomiting 6/22
Su 2015 Vomiting 9/205
Valdizán Usón 2004 Vomiting 2/155
Wang 2007 Vomiting 6/166
Wilens 2005 Vomiting 6/407
Yildiz 2011 Vomiting 1/11
Zarinara 2010 Vomiting 4/18
Dyspepsia
Arnold 2004 Dyspepsia 6/76
Cortese 2015 Dyspepsia 9/1426
Gastroenteritis
Arnold 2004 Gastroenteritis 0/76
Wigal 2015 Gastroenteritis 4/200
Increased appetite
Blader 2010 Increased appetite 1/65
Xerostomia
Khajehpiri 2014 Xerostomia 12/71