Letter: efficacy of peppermint oil in irritable bowel syndrome

Abstract

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Letter: efficacy of peppermint oil in irritable bowel syndrome—authors' reply

“…Xu and Giang for their letter. 1 We performed a metaanalysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of peppermint oil in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) 2 ; hence, all eligible studies were RCTs.The risk of bias in studies was assessed according to the Cochrane risk of bias tool, 3 as recommended, and as we have used in multiple other meta-analyses in IBS. [4][5][6][7][8] We agree that there were high levels of heterogeneity in two of our analyses, a fact that we had acknowledged.…”

“…Xu and Giang for their letter. 1 We performed a metaanalysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of peppermint oil in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) 2 ; hence, all eligible studies were RCTs.…”