The Effect of Blueberry Consumption on Non-communicable Diseases

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases are the illnesses that cannot transmit from person to another. Barberry has been reported as hepatoprotective, hypoglycemic, and an herbal remedy for the treatment of various complaints including diabetes, liver dysfunction, gallbladder pain, gallstone diarrhea, digestive disorders, and urinary tract diseases. This study aimed to estimate and analyze the effect of barberry consumption on non-communicable diseases.

This study employed a prism diagram. The search for articles was carried out based on the eligibility criteria of the PICO Model: P= Patient; I= Consuming Barberry; C= Not consuming Barberry; O= Non-Communicable Disease. The articles used were derived from the Google Scholar database with the following keywords ”barometer“, ”blood pressure”, “cholesterol”, “cardiovascular”, and “randomized controlled trial". The results unveil that four articles in this study from Iran show that consuming barberry lowers the likelihood of non-communicable diseases. Patients with non-communicable diseases who consumed barberry decreased -0.08 times compared to the patients with non-communicable diseases who did not consume barberry (SMD= -0.08; CI 95%= -0.77 to 0.60; p<0.0001), and the results were statistically significant. The meta-analysis of four articles with randomized controlled trial specialists concluded that taking barberry lowers the likelihood of non-communicable diseases.