French maritime pine bark extract significantly lowers the requirement for analgesic medication in dysmenorrhea: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 338-346

  Suzuki, Nobutaka ^a   Uebaba, Kazuo ^b   Kohama, Takafumi ^b   Moniwa, Nobuhiko ^b   Kanayama, Naohiro ^b   Koike, Koji ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Analgesics; Clinical trial; Dysmenorrhea; Menstruation; Pycnogenol

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OLIVE OIL; PLACEBO; PYCNOGENOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSMENORRHEA; ECZEMA; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMENORRHEA; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MORNING DOSAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SORE THROAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45349103581     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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