cucumber and Improved Function Score

• Efficacy of botanical extracts for knee osteoarthritis: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-10-07
  • Systematic Review · n = 285
  • Frontiers in pharmacology 16
  • • Chao Yan
    • Xiaotao Du
    • Yan Liu
    • Fan Xia
    • Hongling Yu
    • Yongliang Zhu
    • Tianyi Bao

  • PubMed: 41126953
  • DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1619589

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Function Score

  • High evidence

  CS extract [MD = 4.28, 95% CI = (2.08, 6.49)] significantly improved function scores

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes