Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine in the Treatment of Diabetes
- VernacularTitle:中药与化学药比较治疗糖尿病随机对照研究的系统评价
- Author:
Jing OUYANG
;
Songqing LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chinese medicine;
Combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine;
Western medicine;
Diabetes;
Ran-domized controlled trial;
Systematic review
- From:
China Pharmacy
2007;0(36):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the curative efficacy of Chinese medicine vs. western medicine in the treatment of diabetes. METHODS:The randomized controlled trials(RCTs) comparing western medicine with traditional Chinese medicine alone or combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine in the treatment of diabetes were systematically evaluated. Meta-analysis of the cited trials was performed by evidence-based medicine method with Revman 4.2 software for statistical analysis. RESULTS:A total of 14 RCTs met our inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis showed that there was no significant difference between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in clinical efficacy in the treatment of diabetes; however,the diabetic patients treated with integrated Chinese medicine and western medicine showed much better efficacy than those treated with western medicine alone. CONCLUSION:Treatment of diabetes with traditional Chinese medicine plus western medicine has more advantages; however,this conclusion remains to be confirmed further by studies of high quality given the low quality in test methodology.
