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Trial reportBiomolecules2019

Antihypertensive Indigenous Lebanese Plants: Ethnopharmacology and a Clinical Trial.

Ali A Samaha, Mirna Fawaz, Ali Salami, Safaa Baydoun, Ali H Eid

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Biomolecules, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Effects of celery (Frontiers in nutrition · 2025
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  5. The pharmaco-epigenetics of hypertension: a focus on microRNA.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2024
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  7. Cardioprotective effect ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2023
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  10. A review of the effects ofIranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2022
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  11. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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  14. Cardioprotective Effects ofJournal of evidence-based integrative medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ali A SamahaLebanese International University, Beirut, P.O. Box 146404, Lebanon.
Mirna FawazFaculty of Health Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, P.O. Box 11-5020, Lebanon.
Ali SalamiLebanese University, Rammal Hassan Rammal Research Laboratory, Physio-toxicity (PhyTox) Research Group, Faculty of Sciences (V), Nabatieh, P.O. Box 6573/14, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0003-3343-4035
Safaa BaydounResearch Center for Environment and Development, Beirut Arab University, Bekaa, P.O. Box 11-5020, Lebanon. safaa.baydoun@bau.edu.lb.
Ali H EidDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Lebanon. ae81@aub.edu.lb.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypertension is highly prevalent among the Lebanese adult population and is indeed the major cause of mortality in Lebanon. Traditional use of antihypertensive medicinal plants has long been practiced. The aim of this study is to document this traditional knowledge and clinically test the antihypertensive capacity of three of the most commonly used wild plant species

Indexed as

AdultAgedAntihypertensive AgentsEthnopharmacologyFemaleHumansHypertensionMaleMenthaMiddle AgedPlant ExtractsPlants, MedicinalAntihypertensive AgentsPlant Extractsherbal medicinehypertensionMentha longifoliaUrtica dioicaViola odorata

Identifiers

PMID31330767
PMCPMC6681041

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