Review Article

Dietary Pattern and Macronutrients Profile on the Variation of Inflammatory Biomarkers: Scientific Update

Table 1

Paper selection stages and inclusion and exclusion criteria for the systematic review.

StagesInclusion and exclusion criteriaN

1Papers identified in the databases
PubMed4869
ScienceDirect4560
Total number of studies identified9429

2Excluded documents and papers (title and abstract screening)
Review papers1510
In vitro or animal model studies1277
Editorials and book chapters1752
Studies that did not aim to evaluate the inflammation3073
Studies that used registered mark supplements12
Studies that assessed pregnancy diet and newborn’s inflammation6
Studies in which inflammation was related to diseases other than diabetes, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and heart diseases1329
Studies that did not assess the dietary pattern in general178
Duplicated46
Total number of papers excluded9183

3Papers selected246

4Papers excluded (full reading)
No results regarding inflammatory markers, only of other cardiovascular risk markers187
Results regarding gene expression only19

5Total number of papers included40