Hangkai Huang, Linjie Lu, Yishu Chen, Yan Zeng, Chengfu Xu
{"title":"The efficacy of vitamin D supplementation for irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review with meta-analysis.","authors":"Hangkai Huang, Linjie Lu, Yishu Chen, Yan Zeng, Chengfu Xu","doi":"10.1186/s12937-022-00777-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12937-022-00777-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder involving gut-brain interactions with limited effective treatment options. Vitamin D deficiency is commonly observed in patients with IBS, but whether vitamin D supplementation ameliorates IBS is controversial in randomized controlled trials. The present systematic review and meta-analysis explored the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in patients with IBS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a systematic search of potentially relevant publications from PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Studies and the Web of Science up until January 2022. We assessed the weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of the IBS severity scoring system (IBS-SSS), IBS quality of life (IBS-QoL) and IBS total score (IBS-TS) before and after vitamin D supplementation intervention.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included four randomized, placebo-controlled trials involving 335 participants. The differences in IBS-SSS score between participants in the intervention group and the placebo group increased after intervention (WMD: -55.55, 95% CI: -70.22 to -40.87, I<sup>2</sup> = 53.7%, after intervention; WMD: -3.17, 95% CI: -18.15 to 11.81, I<sup>2</sup> = 0.0%, before intervention). Participants receiving vitamin D supplementation showed greater improvement in IBS-SSS after intervention than participants receiving placebo treatment (WMD: -84.21, 95% CI: -111.38 to -57.05, I<sup>2</sup> = 73.2%; WMD: -28.29, 95% CI: -49.95 to -6.62, I<sup>2</sup> = 46.6%, respectively). Vitamin D supplementation was also superior to placebo in IBS-QoL improvement (WMD: 14.98, 95% CI: 12.06 to 17.90, I<sup>2</sup> = 0.0%; WMD: 6.55, 95% CI: -2.23 to 15.33, I<sup>2</sup> = 82.7%, respectively). Sensitivity analyses revealed an unstable pooled effect on IBS-TS in participants receiving vitamin D supplementation. Therefore, we did not evaluate the efficacy of vitamin D intervention in IBS-TS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This systematic review and meta-analysis suggested that vitamin D supplementation was superior to placebo for IBS treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"26 1","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9069731/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83005077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence Feedback Loops in Mobile Platform Business Models","authors":"E. Katsamakas, O. Pavlov","doi":"10.1007/s10776-022-00556-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00556-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"250 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47855688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Intelligent Probabilistic Whale Optimization Algorithm (i-WOA) for Clustering in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"Ghassan Husnain, Shahzad Anwar","doi":"10.1007/s10776-022-00555-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00555-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"143 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terahertz Dielectric Characterization of Low-Loss Thermoplastics for 6G Applications","authors":"Min Zhai, A. Locquet, D. Citrin","doi":"10.1007/s10776-022-00554-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00554-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"269 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42435432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Study on the Causes of Mobile Phone Dependence of College Students","authors":"Linghui Tian, Xiaolu Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s10776-021-00532-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-021-00532-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"30 1","pages":"129 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43730359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility Aware Adaptive Hybrid MAC Protocol for WSN","authors":"M. Rajesh, B. L. Raju, B. Bhandari","doi":"10.1007/s10776-022-00553-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00553-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"157 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48095487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relay-Assisted Wireless Energy Transfer for Efficient Spectrum Sharing in Harsh Environments","authors":"Sonia Naderi, Somayeh Khosroazad, A. Abedi","doi":"10.1007/s10776-022-00552-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-022-00552-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"240 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41901911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Learning Protocol for Secure 5G Handovers","authors":"V. O. Nyangaresi, A. Rodrigues, Silvance O. Abeka","doi":"10.1007/s10776-021-00547-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-021-00547-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"29 1","pages":"14 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48553533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Analysis of a Decode-and-forward based Mixed RF-FSO-VLC System","authors":"Rima Deka, Sanya Anees","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-1288723/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1288723/v1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, the performance analysis of a cooperative radio frequency-free space optical communication-visible-light-communication (RF- FSO - VLC ) system using decode-and-forward ( DF ) relays is presented. In the proposed model, the RF link acts as the core network, the FSO link is used for providing last mile connectivity for the indoor cell users communicating through VLC environment. The RF link is characterized by Nakagami - $m$ -distributed fading, while the FSO link undergoes Double Generalized Gamma ( DGG ) distributed atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors and the VLC link is characterized by the Lambertian pattern of the LED. The closed-form expressions of the statistical characteristics of signal-to-noise-ratio ( SNR ) of the DF based triple-hop system are evaluated using which various performance metrics, i.e, outage probability, bit error rate ( BER ), and capacity of the considered system are obtained. The numerical results show that the system's performance gets severely affected by the RF fading, atmospheric turbulence, and pointing errors. The outage performance of the system decreases as field-of-view ( FOV ) and the height of the light-emitting-diode (LED) increase. It is also seen from the results that the BER performance of the system is better in case of heterodyne detection as compared to direct-detection. It is also observed that the capacity of the system decreases when the effect of atmospheric turbulence and pointing error is high and it increases when the no. of LEDs increases.","PeriodicalId":45393,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Wireless Information Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43404652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}