Embracing a Low-Sugar Lifestyle: Evidence-Based Assessment of the Effectiveness in Dietary Regulation Strategies

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hu X1, wang Y, Li X, Yang K
1Lanzhou University, lanzhou, China
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Embracing a Low-Sugar Lifestyle: Evidence-Based Assessment of the Effectiveness in Dietary Regulation Strategies
Xiaoye Hu1,2, YongSheng Wang1,2,Xiuxia Li1,2, Kehu Yang1,2
1.Centre for Evidence-Based Social Science/Center for Health Technology Assessment, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou,730000, China;
2.Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, School of Basic Medical Science,Lanzhou University, Lanzhou,730000, China
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Objective:Systematic identification, description and evaluation of the effectiveness of dietary sugar reduction strategies through the evidence diagram method.
Methods:The search was performed from November 10, 2022, CNKI, Wanfang Data, VIP, CBM, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library database, obtaining the effectiveness of dietary sugar reduction strategies of systematic reviews/meta-analysis. AMSTAR-2 was used to evaluate the methodological quality of the included studies. Microsoft Excel 2019 was used to design a data extraction table to extract relevant key information. Bubble charts were used to comprehensively
present information such as study population, intervention type, number of primary studies included, and outcome measures.
Results:The preliminary search database received 1369 articles, and finally 11 documents were included, all of which were systematic reviews/meta analysis. The effects of 11 intervention measures are shown in Figure 1, each bubble represents an outcome indicator, different colors represent the evidence quality of different research outcomes, and the size of the bubble reflects the number of original studies included in the systematic review/Meta-analysis, where the horizontal axis shows the intervention types of different dietary glucose reduction strategies. The vertical axis shows the effectiveness of the outcome measures corresponding to the intervention type, where effectiveness is reported according to the study's conclusion, including clear beneficial effect, possible effective, unclear, and ineffective.
Conclusion:The evidence map showed that the dietary glucose reduction strategies were partially effective, but there were also intervention types with unclear effectiveness, indicating that the intervention effect on the theoretical basis is very small.In the future, different research types can be included from different perspectives to supplement the current research gap and provide evidence support for identifying priority research areas.

Funding:This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72074103