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.
| Stages | Inclusion and exclusion criteria | N |
| 1 | Papers identified in the databases | | PubMed | 4869 | ScienceDirect | 4560 | Total number of studies identified | 9429 |
| 2 | Excluded documents and papers (title and abstract screening) | | Review papers | 1510 | In vitro or animal model studies | 1277 | Editorials and book chapters | 1752 | Studies that did not aim to evaluate the inflammation | 3073 | Studies that used registered mark supplements | 12 | Studies that assessed pregnancy diet and newborn’s inflammation | 6 | Studies in which inflammation was related to diseases other than diabetes, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and heart diseases | 1329 | Studies that did not assess the dietary pattern in general | 178 | Duplicated | 46 | Total number of papers excluded | 9183 |
| 3 | Papers selected | 246 |
| 4 | Papers excluded (full reading) | | No results regarding inflammatory markers, only of other cardiovascular risk markers | 187 | Results regarding gene expression only | 19 |
| 5 | Total number of papers included | 40 |
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