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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.

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Literature Searches

Literature searches were performed in Medline, Embase, PubMed, and Scopus in February 2021. They were not restricted to a specific time period and are presented in the following tables.

Database: Medline

Search Date: 02/25/21

Search No. Syntax Results
1 Riboflavin/ or Flavin mononucleotide/ or Flavin adenine dinucleotide/ 14,464
2 (riboflavin or Flavin mononucleotide or Flavin adenine dinucleotide or FMN).ti,ab,kw,kf. 14,394
3 ("FMN" OR "FAD").mp. 11,579
4 1 OR 2 OR 3 25,996
5 Erythrocytes/ AND Glutathione reductase/ 1,141
6 Erythrocytes/ and Flavins/ 29
7 (erythrocyte glutathione reductase* or red blood cell glutathione reductase* or RBC glutathione reductase* or erythrocyte Flavin* or red blood cell Flavin* or RBC Flavin* or EGRAC* or E-GRAC* or E grac*).ti,ab,kw,kf. 655
8 5 or 6 or 7 1,645
9 4 or 8 27,231
10 Anemia/ or anemia, hemolytic/ or blood pressure/ or cardiovascular diseases/ or dermatitis, seborrheic/ or flavins/ or glossitis/ or glutathione reductase/ or growth disorders/ or hemoglobins/ or hypertension/ or Leukemia/ or Lymphoma/ or Melanoma/ or mononeuropathies/ or neoplasms/ or Nervous system diseases/ or nervous system diseases/ or nervous system malformations/ or No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level/ or peripheral nervous system diseases/ or Pheochromocytoma/ or polyneuropathies/ or Pre-eclampsia/ or Retinoblastoma/ or Sarcoma/ or skin diseases/ or stomatitis/ or vascular stiffness/ or vitamin b 6/ 1,527,203
11 (Anemia or blood pressure or cancer* or cardio vascular or cardiovascular or cardio-vascular or Cheilosis or Dermatitis or E GRAC or EGRAC or EGRAC or Glossitis or growth disorder* or growth retardation or 4,519,018
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
Haemoglobin* or Hemoglobin* or hyper tens* or hypertens* or hyper-tens* or leukemia* or lymphoma* or melanoma* or microcytic anemia* or neoplas* or nervous system or neurologic* or neuropath* or Pheochromocytoma* or pre eclampsia or preeclampsia or pre-eclampsia or Pyridox* or retinoblastoma* or sarcoma* or Seborrheic or Stomatitis or tumor* or Vit B 6 or Vit B6 or Vit B-6 or Vitamin B 6 or Vitamin B-6).ti,ab,kw,kf.
12 Long term adverse effects/ 638
13 (Toxicity or high dose* or adverse event* or adverse effect* or dose-response* or LOAEL or NOAEL).ti,ab,kw,kf. 765,237
14 Biological availability/ 40,807
15 Deficiency.fs. 167,298
16 (Bioavailabilit* or Bio-availabilit* or Deficien*).ti,ab,kw,kf. 531,186
17 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 5,874,324
18 9 and 17 8,024
19 Diet/ or dietary supplements/ or food/ 244,052
20 (diet* or food*).ti,ab,kw,kf. 839,505
21 19 or 20 912,505
22 18 and 21 1,641
23 (abstracts or academic dissertation or comment or editorial or letter or meeting abstract or meta analysis or review or systematic review).pt. 4,343,870
24 22 not 23 1,439
25 24 not (Animals/ not (Animals/ and Humans/)) 1,022
26 limit 25 to English language 930

Database: Embase

Search Date: 02/25/21

Search No. Syntax Results
1 Riboflavin/ or Flavin mononucleotide/ or Flavin adenine dinucleotide/ 21,543
2 (riboflavin or Flavin mononucleotide or Flavin adenine dinucleotide or FMN).ti,ab,kw. 15,583
3 ("FMN" OR "FAD").mp. 13,294
4 1 OR 2 OR 3 32,384
5 Erythrocytes/ AND Glutathione reductase/ 906
6 Erythrocytes/ and Flavins/ 7
7 (erythrocyte glutathione reductase* or red blood cell glutathione reductase* or RBC glutathione reductase* or erythrocyte Flavin* or red blood cell Flavin* or RBC Flavin* or EGRAC* or E-GRAC* or E grac*).ti,ab,kw. 680
8 5 or 6 or 7 1,461
9 4 or 8 33,533
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
10 Anemia/ or anemia, hemolytic/ or blood pressure/ or cardiovascular diseases/ or dermatitis, seborrheic/ or flavins/ or glossitis/ or glutathione reductase/ or growth disorders/ or hemoglobins/ or hypertension/ or Leukemia/ or Lymphoma/ or Melanoma/ or mononeuropathies/ or neoplasms/ or Nervous system diseases/ or nervous system diseases/ or nervous system malformations/ or No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level/ or peripheral nervous system diseases/ or Pheochromocytoma/ or polyneuropathies/ or Pre-eclampsia/ or Retinoblastoma/ or Sarcoma/ or skin diseases/ or stomatitis/ or vascular stiffness/ or vitamin b 6/ 1,574,674
11 (Anemia or blood pressure or cancer* or cardio vascular or cardiovascular or cardio-vascular or Cheilosis or Dermatitis or E GRAC or EGRAC or EGRAC or Glossitis or growth disorder* or growth retardation or Haemoglobin* or Hemoglobin* or hyper tens* or hypertens* or hyper-tens* or leukemia* or lymphoma* or melanoma* or microcytic anemia* or neoplas* or nervous system or neurologic* or neuropath* or Pheochromocytoma* or pre eclampsia or preeclampsia or pre-eclampsia or Pyridox* or retinoblastoma* or sarcoma* or Seborrheic or Stomatitis or tumor* or Vit B 6 or Vit B6 or Vit B-6 or Vitamin B 6 or Vitamin B-6).ti,ab,kw. 6,699,607
12 Long term adverse effects/ 156,208
13 (Toxicity or high dose* or adverse event* or adverse effect* or dose-response* or LOAEL or NOAEL).ti,ab,kw. 1,254,488
14 Biological availability/ 46,687
15 (Bioavailabilit* or Bio-availabilit* or Deficien*).ti,ab,kw. 748,108
16 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 8,444,217
17 9 and 16 11,888
18 Diet/ or dietary supplements/ or food/ 281,070
19 (diet* or food*).ti,ab,kw. 1,172,330
20 18 or 19 1,216,750
21 17 and 20 3,508
22 (abstracts or academic dissertation or comment or editorial or letter or meeting abstract or meta analysis or review or systematic review).pt. 4,503,857
23 21 not 22 2,955
24 23 not ((exp animal/ or nonhuman/) not exp human/) 2,375
25 limit 24 to English language 2,231
26 limit 25 to (pubmed-not-medline or pubmed/medline) 182
27 25 not 26 2,049

Database: PubMed

Search Date: 02/25/21

Search No. Syntax Results
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
1 riboflavin[MeSH Terms] OR flavin mononucleotide[MeSH Terms] OR Flavin adenine dinucleotide[MeSH Terms] 14,478
2 riboflavin[Title/Abstract] OR "Flavin mononucleotide"[Title/Abstract] OR "Flavin adenine dinucleotide"[Title/Abstract] OR "FMN"[Title/Abstract] OR "FAD"[Title/Abstract] 23,150
3 #1 or #2 27,742
4 Erythrocytes[MeSH Terms] AND Glutathione reductase[MeSH Terms] 1,194
5 Erythrocytes[MeSH Terms] AND flavins[MeSH Terms] 433
6 "erythrocyte glutathione reductase*"[Title/Abstract] or "red blood cell glutathione reductase*"[Title/Abstract] or "RBC glutathione reductase*"[Title/Abstract] or "erythrocyte Flavin*"[Title/Abstract] or "red blood cell Flavin*"[Title/Abstract] or "RBC Flavin*"[Title/Abstract] or "EGRAC*"[Title/Abstract] or "E-GRAC*"[Title/Abstract] or "E grac*"[Title/Abstract] 713
7 #4 or #5 or #6 1,925
8 #3 or #7 29,076
9 Anemia[MeSH Terms] or anemia, hemolytic[MeSH Terms] or blood pressure[MeSH Terms] or cardiovascular diseases[MeSH Terms] or dermatitis, seborrheic[MeSH Terms] or flavins[MeSH Terms] or glossitis[MeSH Terms] or glutathione reductase[MeSH Terms] or growth disorders[MeSH Terms] or hemoglobins[MeSH Terms] or hypertension[MeSH Terms] or Leukemia[MeSH Terms] or Lymphoma[MeSH Terms] or Melanoma[MeSH Terms] or mononeuropathies[MeSH Terms] or neoplasms[MeSH Terms] or Nervous system diseases[MeSH Terms] or nervous system diseases[MeSH Terms] or nervous system malformations[MeSH Terms] or No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level[MeSH Terms] or peripheral nervous system diseases[MeSH Terms] or Pheochromocytoma[MeSH Terms] or polyneuropathies[MeSH Terms] or Pre-eclampsia[MeSH Terms] or Retinoblastoma[MeSH Terms] or Sarcoma[MeSH Terms] or skin diseases[MeSH Terms] or stomatitis[MeSH Terms] or vascular stiffness[MeSH Terms] or vitamin b 6[MeSH Terms] 8,352,121
10 Anemia[Title/Abstract] or "blood pressure"[Title/Abstract] or cancer*[Title/Abstract] or "cardio vascular"[Title/Abstract] or cardiovascular[Title/Abstract] or "cardio-vascular"[Title/Abstract] or Cheilosis[Title/Abstract] or Dermatitis[Title/Abstract] or "E GRAC"[Title/Abstract] or "EGRAC"[Title/Abstract] or "EGRAC"[Title/Abstract] or Glossitis[Title/Abstract] or "growth disorder*"[Title/Abstract] or "growth retardation"[Title/Abstract] or Haemoglobin*[Title/Abstract] or Hemoglobin*[Title/Abstract] or "hyper tens*"[Title/Abstract] or hypertens*[Title/Abstract] or "hypertens*"[Title/Abstract] or leukemia*[Title/Abstract] or lymphoma*[Title/Abstract] or melanoma*[Title/Abstract] or "microcytic anemia*"[Title/Abstract] or neoplas*[Title/Abstract] or "nervous system"[Title/Abstract] or neurologic*[Title/Abstract] or 5,171,542
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
neuropath*[Title/Abstract] or Pheochromocytoma*[Title/Abstract] or "pre eclampsia"[Title/Abstract] or preeclampsia[Title/Abstract] or "preeclampsia"[Title/Abstract] or Pyridox*[Title/Abstract] or retinoblastoma*[Title/Abstract] or sarcoma*[Title/Abstract] or Seborrheic[Title/Abstract] or Stomatitis[Title/Abstract] or tumor*[Title/Abstract] or "Vit B 6"[Title/Abstract] or "Vit B6"[Title/Abstract] or "Vit B-6"[Title/Abstract] or "Vitamin B 6"[Title/Abstract] or "Vitamin B-6"[Title/Abstract]
11 Long term adverse effects[MeSH terms] 638
12 Toxicity[Title/Abstract] or "high dose*"[Title/Abstract] or "adverse event*"[Title/Abstract] or "adverse effect*"[Title/Abstract] or "dose-response*" [Title/Abstract] or "LOAEL"[Title/Abstract] or "NOAEL"[Title/Abstract] 882,680
13 Biological availability[MeSH Terms] 40,843
14 Bioavailabilit*[Title/Abstract] or "Bio-availabilit*"[Title/Abstract] or Deficien*[Title/Abstract] 5,96,012
15 #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 10,739,352
16 #8 and #15 20,260
17 Diet[MeSH Terms] or dietary supplements[MeSH Terms] or food[MeSH Terms] 827,411
18 diet*[Title/Abstract] or food*[Title/Abstract] 984,410
19 #17 or #18 1,440,705
20 #16 and #19 3,713
21 comment [Publication Type] or editorial [Publication Type] or letter [Publication Type] or meta analysis [Publication Type] or review [Publication Type] or systematic review [Publication Type] 4,761,910
22 #20 not #21 3,356
23 #22 NOT ("Animals"[Mesh] NOT ("Animals"[Mesh] AND "Humans"[Mesh])) 2,048
24 #24 and (pubmednotmedline[sb]) 86
Filter: English[Language]

Database: Scopus

Search Date: 02/26/21

( ( ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( RIBOFLAVIN OR "FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE" OR "FLAVIN ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE" OR "FMN" OR "FAD" OR "ERYTHROCYTE GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE*" OR "RED BLOOD CELL GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE*" OR "RBC GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE*" OR "ERYTHROCYTE FLAVIN*" OR "RED BLOOD CELL FLAVIN*" OR "RBC FLAVIN*" OR "EGRAC*" OR "E-GRAC*" OR "E GRAC*" ) AND ( ANEMIA OR "BLOOD PRESSURE" OR CANCER* OR "CARDIO VASCULAR" OR CARDIOVASCULAR OR "CARDIO-VASCULAR" OR CHEILOSIS OR DERMATITIS OR "E GRAC" OR "EGRAC" OR "E-GRAC" OR GLOSSITIS OR "GROWTH DISORDER*" OR "GROWTH RETARDATION" OR HAEMOGLOBIN* OR

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.

HEMOGLOBIN* OR "HYPER TENS*" OR HYPERTENS* OR "HYPER-TENS*" OR LEUKEMIA* OR LYMPHOMA* OR MELANOMA* OR "MICROCYTIC ANEMIA*" OR NEOPLAS* OR "NERVOUS SYSTEM" OR NEUROLOGIC* OR NEUROPATH* OR PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA* OR "PRE ECLAMPSIA" OR PREECLAMPSIA OR "PREECLAMPSIA" OR PYRIDOX* OR RETINOBLASTOMA* OR SARCOMA* OR SEBORRHEIC OR STOMATITIS OR TUMOR* OR "VIT B 6" OR "VIT B6" OR "VIT B-6" OR "VITAMIN B 6" OR "VITAMIN B-6" OR TOXICITY OR "HIGH DOSE*" OR "ADVERSE EVENT*" OR "ADVERSE EFFECT*" OR "DOSE-RESPONSE*" OR "LOAEL" OR "NOAEL" OR BIOAVAILABILIT* OR "BIO-AVAILABILIT*" OR DEFICIEN* ) ) ) AND ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( DIET* OR FOOD* ) ) ) AND ( INDEXTERMS ( HUMAN* ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( HUMAN* ) ) ) AND NOT ( INDEX ( MEDLINE ) ) AND ( EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE , "RE" ) OR EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE , "LE" ) OR EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE , "ED" ) OR EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE , "CH" ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE , "ENGLISH" ) )

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Literature Searches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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