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),