The evaluation of clinical studies published in Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine during 2011 to 2015 according to CONSORT statement / 中国小儿急救医学

Objective To search and evaluate the quality of reports of clinical trial studies published in Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine according to CONSORT statement.Methods We collected all articles published in Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine from January 1,2011 to November 31,2015 through searching the WanFang Database,then evaluated and analyzed clinical trial studies.Results Among all 1317 articles we retrieved,62 (4.7％)of them belong to clinical trial study.According to CONSORT statement,all the articles satisfied items from 1b to 6b (including abstract,introduction,trial design,participants,interventions and outcomes),only 30(48.4％) and 4(6.5％) articles mentioned item 8a (method used to generate the random allocation sequence)and 8b(type of randomization;details of any restriction),respectively.None of the editors reported item 9(mechanism used to implement the random allocation sequence,describing any steps taken to conceal the sequence until interventions were assigned)and 10(who generated the random allocation sequence,who enrolled participants,and who assigned participants to interventions).Among 62 included studies,33(53.2％)studies concentrated on respiratory system diseases.However,studies about nervous system,circulatory system and digestive system were 5(8.1％),4(6.5％)and 4 (6.5％) respectively.Although all the results had statistical significance,only 38(61.3％),7(11.3％) and 5 (8.1％)mentioned randomization,follow-up and blinding respectively.Flow diagram was only included in one (1.6％) article.Conclusion The articles of clinical trial studies published in Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine did not take CONSORT statement as reference completely.

The Effects of Uncooked Powdered Food on Nutrient Intake, Body Fat and Serum Lipid Compositions in Hyperlipidemic Patients

This study was designed to investigate the effects of weight reduction and changes in serum lipid composition using a commercial uncooked powdered food (UPF) diet on 27 obese hyperlipidemic women over a period of 12 weeks. We replaced the standard breakfast and dinner of each of the subjects with UPF. Their dietary intake status was evaluated by 24-hour recall method. Their body compositions were measured using a body fat analyzer. Also, we conducted hematological, clinical and lipid profile analyses of their blood. Their intake of energy, lipid and protein significantly decreased as the subjects started to take UPF, but their intake of vitamins and minerals, other than iron, increased. Due to the energy intake decrease, the subjects' weight, body fat and waist circumference significantly decreased. Among the lost weight the percentage of the body fat was high. We judged that this process of losing weight was successful in obese hyperlipidemic women. Serum HDL-cholesterol gradually increased and serum total-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglyceride levels showed gradual decreases. When obese hyperlipidemic women replaced two of three meals with UPF for 3 months, we were able to see useful changes like decreased body fat and serum lipid. Complete judgment on the usefulness of UPF may be difficult but if people take a standard meal once a day and replenish their iron by taking UPF twice a day, we assume that replacing UPF with balanced regular meal not be a problem in nutritional status. Our results show that UPF is effective in the diet therapy of obese hyperlipidemic women.

The Effects of Uncooked Powdered Food on Nutrient Intake, Serum Lipid Level, Dietary Behavior and Health Index in Healthy Women

The purpose of this study was to obtain the nutritional values and objective data of uncooked powdered food (UPF) in korea. We interviewed 27 healthy female subjects aged over 25 years living in the lksan area. We just replaced common breakfast and dinner of the subjects with UPF. Their dietary intake status was evaluated by 24-hour recall method. Their body compositions were measured using body fat analyzer. Also we conducted hematological and clinical analysis of blood. The intake of energy, lipid and protein has decreased as people started to take UPF, but the intake of vitamins and minerals has increased. The quality of meals has improved after taking UPF. Due to the energy loss by taking UPF, weight and body fat gradually lessened. Among the lost weight the percentage of the body fat was high and we judged that the process of losing weight was successful. It is hard to predict whether weight loss will occur to people who are already in shape or not, but if overweight and obesity people regularly take UPF instead of other food products, we assume that UPF will help lessening body fat. The most positive change among biochemical changes by taking UPF was decreasing of serum lipid contents. The concentrations of total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol gradually decreased and decreased intently after 12weeks. Serum HDL-cholesterol gradually increased and serum triglyceride showed gradual decrement. When healthy adult women replaced two of three meals with UPF for 3months, we were able to see some useful changes like decrement of body fat and serum lipid control and during this 3month period, no significant nutritional problems occurred. Complete judgement on UPF may be difficult with these conclusions but if people take a nomal meal once and replenish iron from taking UPF twice a day, we assume that replacing UPF with regular meal not be a problem in nutritional status. If other experiments on the effects of UPF proceed, we believe that those experiments will be very helpful in judging the nutritional value of UPF.