Fig. 7

Effect of racecadotril as compared to comparator treatment on number of stools on 2nd day of treatment (upper panel) and time from start of treatment to end of diarrhea (‘time to cure’, lower panel). Each pair of data points represents one study. Note that comparator treatments included placebo (n = 2 and 3 studies, respectively), various background treatments (n = 8 and 16 studies, respectively) and active comparator treatments (n = 3 and 5 studies, respectively); for details see section 4. Descriptive P-values are based on paired, two-tailed t-tests