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Open WellbeingWhat the studies actually measured

Hormones, thyroid and fertility

Coenzyme Q10and Sperm concentration

Only one source here so far, and it measured higher sperm concentration.

How sure anyone can be

Low certainty, level 2 of 4

Further research is likely to change this.

The numbers reported

One source’s range, drawn against its own line of no difference and scaled to its own numbers.

4.185.336.47

This range stays on one side of the no-difference line.

Bar the confidence interval — the range the true effect is likely to sit inNotch the number the source reportedLine where there would be no difference at all

One source, newest first

What we read is the published abstract, not the full paper, so a blank below may still be printed in the paper itself. A fixed rule worked this out from the source’s own fields. Nobody checked this rating by hand.

  • Systematic review, 2013

    Low certainty, level 2 of 4

    Coenzyme Q10 and male infertility: a meta-analysis.

    J Assist Reprod Genet. 2013;30(9):1147-56. doi:10.1007/s10815-013-0047-5. PMID:23912751.

    Number reported
    5.33
    Which way it went
    Higher
    Likely range
    4.18 to 6.47
    Source’s own words
    RR as printed for sperm concentration vs placebo
    Who was studied
    Male infertility patients
    Compared with
    placebo
    Amount taken
    Not in the abstract
    For how long
    Not in the abstract
    Disagreement between studies
    I(2) = 58%
    Kind of record
    Journal article
    How this rating was reachedstarts at High, 2 steps down: risk of bias and imprecision
    1. Starts at High
    2. Risk of bias brought it down to Moderatethe abstract reports no risk-of-bias or quality appraisal, so study limitations cannot be ruled outNot in the abstract
    3. Imprecision brought it down to Lowthe abstract does not state how many participants were pooledNot in the abstract
    4. Ends at Low2 steps down.
    Checked, nothing to step it down for
    indirectness
    Inconsistency
    No disagreement reported, and no count of studies behind it

    Imprecision stops at the first check that applies; others may apply too.

    Source saved; quote checked byte-for-byte against it by software; no signature.

    Read the abstract on PubMed

What is still missing from these readings

  • One do not say how many people took part.
  • Amount taken — Not in the abstract.
  • For how long — Not in the abstract.

Something nobody wrote down is never a zero and never a guess.

Still to read for Coenzyme Q10

Seven of the 23 things on our list for Coenzyme Q10 have no reading here yet:

  • Estimated VO2max
  • Fatigue
  • Flow-Mediated Dilation
  • Inflammation Score
  • Major cardiovascular events
  • Muscle soreness
  • NT-proBNP

Still to read means nobody here has got to it, not that it was tried and did nothing or that no research exists. A pairing on no list is not a gap: we never set out to read it.

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