Effect and Safety of the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"Method in the Treatment of Diabetic Cognitive Impairment:A Meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
- VernacularTitle:基于Meta分析和试验序贯分析探讨补肾活血法治疗糖尿病认知功能障碍的有效性及安全性
- Author:
Jianan SU
1
;
Jiren AN
;
Guiyan SUN
;
Yufeng YANG
;
Yan SHI
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- Keywords: "Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method; Diabetic cognitive impairment; Meta-analysis; Trial sequential analysis; GRADE evidence classification
- From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2023;25(9):2929-2941
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Objective To make a system evaluation regarding the effect and safety of the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method in the treatment of diabetic cognitive impairment.Methods According to the requirements of evidence-based medicine,the domestic and foreign databases were searched comprehensively,and the time limit was from the establishment of databases to June 2022,so as to find out the clinical randomized controlled trials of"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method in treating diabetic cognitive impairment.Revman5.3 was used for meta-analysis and risk bias evaluation,TSA0.9 for sequential analysis,Stata15.0 for publication bias evaluation,and GRADE3.6 for evidence quality evaluation.Results Eventually,14 RCTs were included with a sample size of 1126 cases.Meta-analysis showed that compared with conventional western medicine treatment,the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method could significantly improve the effective rate of treating cognitive dysfunction in diabetes[OR=5.06,95%CI(3.38,7.57),P<0.00001],and significantly improve the total MoCA score of patients[MD=2.11,95%CI(1.76,2.47),P<0.00001],MMSE score[MD=1.86,95%CI(1.13,2.59),P<0.00001],MQ score[MD=13.40,95%CI(11.23,15.57),P<0.00001]and HDS score[MD=-3.36,95%CI(2.61,4.11),P<0.00001].Meanwhile,the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method could reduce the level of glycosylated hemoglobin in DCI patients[MD=-0.84,95%CI(-1.37,-0.32),P=0.002].However,since the drugs used in the control group have no hypoglycemic effect,this conclusion needs to be further verified.In addition,the ability of the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method to improve CDR score[MD=-0.01,95%CI(-0.08,0.07),P=0.84],ADL score[MD=2.10,95%CI(-1.62,5.82),P=0.27],TCM syndrome score[MD=-4.46,95%CI(-10.94,2.02),P=0.18]and reduce adverse reactions[OR=0.36,95%CI(0.08,1.60),P=0.18]was equivalent to that of conventional western medicine.Begg's test and Egger's test suggested that there might be some publication bias in the research.Metaninf command chart and sequential analysis of experiments indicated that the stability of research results was relatively good.The quality evaluation of evidence showed that the evidence of effective rate,glycosylated hemoglobin,MoCA scale score,MMSE score and MQ score was medium quality,the evidence of fasting blood glucose,CDR score and HDS score was low quality,and the evidence of ADL score,TCM syndrome score and adverse reactions was extremely low quality.Conclusion The existing literature evidence showed that the"Nourishing Kidney and Activating Blood"method had a good clinical effect in treating diabetic cognitive impairment,and it could reduce the blood glucose level and improve the cognitive function of patients,with certain safety.However,the above conclusions still needed more large samples and multi-center RCT to be further verified due to the limitation of the quality and quantity of the included literature.
