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Article: Clinical effects of Garcinia kola in knee osteoarthritis.(Recent Abstracts)(Drug overview)
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- Alternative Medicine Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Adegbehingbe OO, Adesanya SA, Idowu TO, et al. J Orthop Surg 2008;3:34.
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES: Over the past years, there has been a growing number of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients who are not willing to comply with long-term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) treatment and wish to use herbal anti- rheumatic medicine. This study assessed the clinical effects of Garcinia kola (GK) in KOA patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Prospective randomized, placebo controlled, double blind, clinical trial approved by the institutional medical ethics review board and written informed consent obtained from each patient. All KOA patients presenting at the Obafemi ...
<0.001). Multiple comparisons of the mean VAS pain change of G. kola group was not lowered significantly against the naproxen and celebrex groups (p><0.001). However, it was slower than the active comparators (p>