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According to a study conducted by the CDC through the years 2021 to 2023, its estimated that 53.2 million Americans or 21.2% of the entire adult population suffers from arthritis (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention [CDC],2023)
Other studies have connected low zinc levels with low IGF-1 in both rodents and humans, even when calorie intake is adequate (5, 48, 49)
PM, AB, FG, GC, and AS analyzed the data
Hedges' g effect values of 0.20, 0.50 and 0.80 respectively represent small, medium and large effects ( Meta-analysis was performed using R Studio's Metafor package ( I 2 statistics for quantification and Cochran's Q for statistical significance test to evaluate heterogeneity