Pilot search strategies in PubMed/MEDLINE database
| Database | Search restriction | Search strategy | Number of retrieved articles |
| PubMed/ MEDLINE | Language/ English only | #1 “Vascular Calcification”(MeSH Terms) OR “vascular calcification associated factor human”(Supplementary Concept))OR “vascular calcification associated factor bos taurus”(Supplementary Concept))OR “abdom* aort* calcif*“(Title/Abstract)OR “aort* calcif*“(Title/Abstract)OR “vascular calcif*“(Title/Abstract)OR “arter* calcif*“(Title/Abstract)OR “aac”(Title/Abstract) Hits=23 650 #2 “Micronutrients”(MeSH Terms) OR “Micronutrients”(Pharmacological Action) OR “Dietary Supplements”(MeSH Terms) OR “diet* micronutrient*“(Title/Abstract)OR “micronut* intake”(Title/Abstract)OR “nutrition* intake”(Title/Abstract)OR “vitamin* intake”(Title/Abstract)OR “mineral* intake”(Title/Abstract)OR “trace element*“(Title/Abstract)OR “diet* antioxidant*"(Title/Abstract) Hits=8 64 097 #3 “Disease Progression”(MeSH Terms) OR (“Disease Progression”(MeSH Terms) OR ((“presen*“(All Fields) AND “of aac”(Title/Abstract)) OR “detect* aac”(Title/Abstract)OR “aac occurren*“(Title/Abstract)OR (“sever*“(All Fields) AND “of aac”(Title/Abstract)) OR “aac scor*“(Title/Abstract)OR “calcific* burden”(Title/Abstract)OR (“progress*“(All Fields) AND “of aac”(Title/Abstract)) OR “aac develop*“(Title/Abstract)OR ((“augment altern commun”(Journal) OR “adv appl ceram”(Journal) OR “aac”(All Fields)) AND “increas*“(Title/Abstract)) OR ((“aort”(All Fields) AND “c”(All Fields)) AND “calcif*“(Title/Abstract)) OR “vascular calcific*“(Title/Abstract)OR ((“augment altern commun”(Journal) OR “adv appl ceram”(Journal) OR “aac”(All Fields)) AND “mortalit*"(Title/Abstract)))) Hits=2 28 663 #1 AND #2 AND #3 Hits=827 | 827 |
| Filter on/Language/English only | 778 |