Acupuncture and moxibustion versus western medicine for benign prostatic hyperplasia:a systematic review
- VernacularTitle:针灸与西药治疗前列腺增生症疗效比较的系统评价
- Author:
Yuanwu CHEN
;
Yuanhao DU
;
Jun XIONG
;
Pan SUN
;
Xiang GAO
;
Xiaomiao LIN
;
Li XIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acupuncture and moxibustion;
Prostatic hyperplasia;
Clinical randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials;
System evaluation
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To evaluate the quality of prostate hyperplasia related literature in acupuncture and moxibustion,and to compare the curative effect on prostate hyperplasia between acupuncture and moxibustion and western medicine.Methods:Retrieving Pubmed,Cochrane Library,CBM database,CNKI database Etc.to collect the literature of prostate hyperplasia of clinical randomized or quasi-randomized control trials of comparative study between western medicine and acupuncture treatment.The data was extracted independently by two valuers from literatures fitting the selection criteria.Cochrane evaluation manual 4.2.6 was used to evaluate quality,and RevMan 4.2.8 was used in statistical analysis.Results:A total of six randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials (total 546 examples) were adopted.6 study adopted the total effective rate of evaluation indexes,Meta-analysis showed that there was a significant difference between acupuncture treatment group and western medicine group [merger RR (fixed effects model)=1.26,95%CI(1.15,1.37),Z=5.13,P
