TABLE 1.
Characteristics of included RCTs.
| Author, year | Country | Study design | Participants number | Follow-up duration | Intervention drugs | Treatment outcomes | Adverse events |
| Overton et al. (2016) | The United States | Phase 4 randomized trial | 22 | 48 weeks | DRV/r | 9.9 | 2/12 |
| ATV/r | 9.1 | 1/10 | |||||
| Glucose disposal rate | |||||||
| Noor et al. (2004) | The United States | Randomized, double-blind, crossover study | 30 | 5 days | Placebo | 9.88 | None |
| ATV | 9.80 | ||||||
| LPV/r | 7.52 | ||||||
| Glucose disposal rate | |||||||
| Noor et al. (2006) | The United States | Randomized, crossover study | 26 | 10 days | ATV/r | 10.4 | None |
| LPV/r | 8.6 | ||||||
| Glucose disposal rate | |||||||
| Lee et al. (2007) | The United States | Randomized, double-blind, crossover study | 14 | 28 days | RTV | 8.0 | 1/8 |
| Amprenavir | 8.4 glucose disposal rate | 0/6 | |||||
| Molina et al. (2010) | Multicenter | Multicenter, open-label, non-inferiority randomized trial | 883 | 96 weeks | ATV/RTV | 3/434 | 283 |
| LPV/RTV | 2/428 | 282 | |||||
| Hyperglycemia | |||||||
| Stanley et al. (2009) | The United States | Randomized non-blinded trial | 12 | 6 months | ATV/RTV | 26.7 | 3/5 |
| LPV/RTV | 24.4 | 1/7 | |||||
| Glucose disposal rate | |||||||
| Dubé et al. (2008) | The United States | Placebo-controlled trial | 30 | 4 weeks | ATV/RTV | 6.73 | |
| LPV/RTV | 8.88 | ||||||
| Placebo | 7.53 | ||||||
| Mean glucose uptake | |||||||
| Noor et al. (2002) | The United States | Randomized placebo-controlled trial | 06 | 7–10 days | IDV | 13.5 | |
| Placebo | 14.1 | ||||||
| Glucose disposal rate | |||||||
| Randell et al. (2010) | The United Kingdom | Randomized trial | 27 | 2 weeks | FPV | 4.48 | |
| LPV | 0.28 | ||||||
| M/I (ratio of glucose disposal rate) |
DRV, darunavir; ATV, atazanavir; IDV, indinavir; RTV, ritsonavir; LPV, lopinavir; FPV, fosamprenavir.