3.8. Regions of treatment
Included ten studies with 19 independent reports from eight countries were divided into five continents, to explore whether post-menopausal women who took phytoestrogens had different rates of depression relief. We found that the postmenopausal women in Europe had the best depressive remission among the five continents (SMD=-0.60, 95%[CI]=-0.85 to -0.34I 2=54%, P <0.05), better than the women in other regions (In Supplementary Material Fig.8),