Circulating markers of oxidative stress and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a systematic review and meta-analysis
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...Three meta-analyses confirmed a decrease in plasma GSH and an increase in plasma GSSG in patients with autism spectrum disorders (54) and lower plasma GSH levels in polycystic ovary syndrome (121), two conditions in which oxidative stress has been implicated (127, 144)....
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...Lower level of APMAP has been found in visceral adipose tissue in patients with PCOS [81] might contribute to the impairment in antioxidant defense characteristic of PCOS [86]....
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...Evidence dissemination bias was estimated by funnel plot asymmetry and Egger’s regression test (Egger et al., 1997) when 10 or more studies were analysed....
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...…resulting from clinical and/or methodological issues might have had on the results of the meta-analyses we chose Hedges’s g SMD as a measure of the effect size (Durlak, 2009) and implemented random-effects models using the DerSimonian–Laird weighting method (DerSimonian and Laird, 1986)....
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...In order to overcome the impact that the heterogeneity resulting from clinical and/or methodological issues might have had on the results of the meta-analyses we chose Hedges’s g SMD as a measure of the effect size (Durlak, 2009) and implemented random-effects models using the DerSimonian–Laird weighting method (DerSimonian and Laird, 1986)....
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...…the large number of subjects included in the analyses, the exclusion of duplicate reports and the medium- to high-quality requirement for inclusion of studies in the meta-analysis as assessed by a modified Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for case–control studies (Wells et al., 2000)....
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...Studies reporting circulating markers of oxidative stress in women with PCOS and controls and published up to June 2012 were identified and analysed....
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...The studies included for the meta-analysis were appraised for their methodological quality according to a modification of the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for case–control studies (Wells et al., 2000), as presented in Table I....
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...Protective physiological mechanisms against oxidant species involve preventative and repair mechanisms, physical defences and antioxidant defences (Valko et al., 2007)....
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...But when present in excess, oxidants may damage DNA, cellular lipids and proteins, interfering with their normal function (Valko et al., 2007)....
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