Meta analysis on the treatment of chronic urticaria with Danggui Yinzi

VernacularTitle:当归饮子治疗慢性荨麻疹的Meta分析
Author: Yumin LIU ; Yu GUO ; Hua HUA
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Danggui Yinzi; Chronic urticaria; Meta-analysis
From: International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;(3):196-200
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To assess the efficacy of Danggui Yinzi versus western medicine for treating chronic urticaria.Methods CNKI,VIP,Wanfang data,EMbase,the citation databases of PubMed,web of science updated to August 2012 were electronically searched.Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and Clinical controlled trial (CCTs) on Danggui Yinzi and western medicine for chronic urticaria were identified.The quality of included RCTs and CCTs was assessed,and the meta-analysis was conducted with Revman5.1 software.Funnel-plot was used to identify the publication bias and performed sensitivity analyses.Results 13 trails involving 1042 patients were included.The qualities of all these trails were relatively low.There was no trail set double blinding and allocation concealment.Meta-analysis indicated that compared with western medicine,the effective rate of Danggui Yinzi was superior to that of western medicine[OR=2.53,95％CI(1.92,3.34)].The funnel-plot demonstrated that there was publication bias.Conclusion The current evidence showed that Danggui Yinzi was superior to western medicine in efficacy,but we need more multicenter,randomized,double-blind trails to support it.