Publications by authors named "Young-Seo Yoo"
Article Synopsis
- Osteoporosis (OP) is a growing health issue linked to aging, and there's increasing interest in using herbal medicines (HMs) alongside bisphosphonates (BPs), the standard OP treatment, to enhance bone mineral density (BMD).
- A systematic review analyzed 43 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving about 4,470 participants to compare the effects of HMs with BPs against BPs alone on BMD.
- Results indicated that combining HMs and BPs significantly improved BMD more than BPs alone, but the findings are tempered by high variability among the studies and low confidence in the evidence, suggesting more rigorous research is needed.
Unlabelled: Our review of 52 RCTs from 5 databases suggests a tendency for notable improvement in BMD when combining herbal medicine with supplements (calcium and vitamin D variants) compared to supplement monotherapy in primary osteoporosis. However, caution is needed in interpreting results due to substantial heterogeneity among included studies.
Purpose: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine whether herbal medicine (HM) plus supplements such as calcium (Ca) or vitamin D (Vit.