Table 3:
The top 10 most frequent diseases being treated with pine pollen alone or as an adjuvant therapy
| Rank | Disease | ICD-10 codes | Type and quantity of research |
Total (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCTs | CCTs | Case series | Case reports | ||||
| 1 | Bedsores | L89 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 (16.22) |
| 2 | Diaper dermatitis | L22 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 (13.51) |
| 3 | Hyperlipidemia | E78 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 (10.81) |
| 4 | Oral mucositis | K12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (8.11) |
| 5 | Eczema | L20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 (8.11) |
| 6 | Hyperplasia of prostate | N40 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 (8.11) |
| 7 | Hypertension | I10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (5.41) |
| 8 | Prostatitis | N41 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 (5.41) |
| 9 | Type 2 diabetes mellitus | E11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (5.41) |
| 10 | Radiodermatitis | L58 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (5.41) |
Percentage=(n/37)%: Chen and Zhang, 2013[22] studied diaper dermatitis and eczema in the same study; Wang, 2006[45] studied prostatitis and hyperplasia of prostate in the same study. ICD-10: International classification of diseases 10th revision, RCTs: Randomized controlled trials, CCTs: Controlled clinical trials