Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1378-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Marquis-Gravel ◽  
Louis-Mathieu Stevens ◽  
Samer Mansour ◽  
Robert Avram ◽  
Nicolas Noiseux
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (14) ◽  
pp. 1841-1850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Theodora Oikonomou ◽  
Marios Arvanitis ◽  
Robert L Sokolove

Recent studies have shown that mindfulness training has a promising potential for smoking treatment. In order to examine the efficacy of mindfulness training in smoking cessation, we performed a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Four randomized controlled trials with 474 patients were included in our analysis. The results showed that 25.2 percent of participants remained abstinent for more than 4 months in the mindfulness group compared to 13.6 percent of those who received usual care therapy (relative risk, 1.88; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.04–3.40). Our results suggest that mindfulness training may have an important role to play in efforts to lower cigarette smoking rates.


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