Efficacy of Zinc Supplementation in the Management of Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Ting-Jui Hsu, Rong-Hong Hsieh, Chin-Huan Huang, Chih-Shou Chen, Wei-Yu Lin, Yun-Ching Huang, Jian-Hui Lin, Kuo-Tsai Huang, Yu-Liang Liu, Hui-Ming Tsai, Dong-Ru Ho, Maria Luz Fernandez, Alan Stewart · 2024
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Period pain without any underlying disease afflicts up to nine in ten menstruating women, and Ting-Jui Hsu and co-authors asked whether a cheap mineral helps, in a 2024 review. Zinc calms inflammation and relaxes the uterus in theory, by throttling prostaglandins and boosting an antioxidant enzyme.
The team gathered randomized trials through May 2024 from five databases and pooled their pain scores under a random-effects model, checking each trial's risk of bias. Their questions were twofold: does zinc ease the pain, and do dose and course length change the answer? The review weighs the trials' consistency and safety reports together. The authors frame zinc as a plausible low-cost alternative for a condition often managed with resignation, while marking where the trial evidence is still thin.
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| CREATOR | Ting-Jui Hsu, Rong-Hong Hsieh, Chin-Huan Huang, Chih-Shou Chen, Wei-Yu Lin, Yun-Ching Huang, Jian-Hui Lin, Kuo-Tsai Huang, Yu-Liang Liu, Hui-Ming Tsai, Dong-Ru Ho, Maria Luz Fernandez, Alan Stewart |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |