Association of Helicobacter pylori Infection with Glycemic Control in Patients with Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Study keywords in this meta-analysis.

S1 [Related to diabetes mellitus]
Thesaurus terms
EMBASE (“insulin dependent diabetes mellitus” [NoExp] OR “juvenile diabetes mellitus” [NoExp] OR “diabetic patient” [NoExp] OR
“diabetes mellitus” [NoExp] OR “maturity onset diabetes mellitus” [NoExp] OR “non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus” [NoExp])
MEDLINE (“Diabetes Mellitus” [NoExp] OR “Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2” [NoExp] OR
“Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1” [NoExp])
text words
(“diabetes” OR “NIDDM” OR “IDDM” OR “diabetic*”)
S2 [Related to Helicobacter Pylori]
Thesaurus terms
EMBASE (“Helicobacter pylori” [Exp] OR “Helicobacter infection”)
MEDLINE (“Helicobacter pylori”) [Exp]
Test word
“pylori”
S3 1 AND 2

[Exp] indicates automatic inclusion of all of the narrower terms under the specified descriptor in the thesaurus hierarchy.
[NoExp] exclusively searches for the specified descriptor.
asterisk (*) indicates an inflection of the corresponding word.