INTEGRATED TRADITIONAL CHINESE AND WESTERN MEDICINE FOR MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME: META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
| Autor: | Yan Liu, Mei-Jing Kou, Xiaojuan Zou, Rui-Xue Jiang, Hong Dai, Xiu-Fang Ding, Jiaxu Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Traditional medicine Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Menopausal Syndrome Meta-analysis business.industry Alternative medicine Menopausal Syndrome 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Cochrane Library 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences law.invention Therapeutic approach Complementary and alternative medicine Randomized controlled trial law Meta-analysis Internal medicine Drug Discovery medicine Clinical efficacy 0210 nano-technology business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Western medicine |
| Zdroj: | African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines; Vol 13, No 1 (2016); 157-168 |
| ISSN: | 2505-0044 0189-6016 |
| DOI: | 10.21010/ajtcam.v13i1.21 |
| Popis: | Background: To critically assess the evidence of integrated Chinese and western medicine for treating Menopausal syndrome (MPS).Methods and Materials: A search across the Chinese Biomedical Medicine (CBM), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), VIP database (VIP), Wangfang database (Wanfang), PubMed and the Cochrane Library databases was conducted (up to October 31st, 2013) in commonly used integrated Chinese and western medicine therapies for menopausal syndrome. A number of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of integrated Chinese and western medicine in patients with PPS were included. The quality of the included studies was evaluated and a meta-analysis was performed using the RevMan5.0 software.Results: Twelve RCTs with 1155 patients were evaluated in this review. The results of meta-analysis showed that the therapy of using integrated Chinese and western medicine was significantly superior to that of western medicine alone towards improving the efficacy, relieving the clinical symptoms and decreasing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH）levels (P |
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