A meta-analysis of integration of Traditional and Western Medicine treatment versus Western treatment in patients with lupus nephritis
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Biomedical and Applied Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
Objective:To systematically evaluate the clinical effect of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western Medicine (TCM-WM) and to investigate effective therapy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for lupus nephritis(LN). Methods A meta-analysis was performed of all the literatures germane to estimate the patients treated with TCM-WM and western medicine(WM ) alone from published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from 1990 to February 2013. Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated and the meta-analysis was conducted with Revman5.2 software. GRADE Profile3.6 was used to evaluate the quality of the evidence. Results 12 RCTs were included. The complete remission rate(RR =1.58, 95%CI 1.4-1.78, P<0.00001) and the total remission rate(RR =1.18, 95%CI 1.13-1.24, P<0.00001) of TCM-WM were higher than that of WM .The relapse rate(RR =0.32, 95%CI 0.22-0.44, P<0.00001), incidence of adverse reactions(RR =0.47, 95%CI 0.41-0.55, P<0.00001)and mortality rate(RR =0.38, 95%CI 0.23-0.63, P=0.00002) of TCM-WM were much lower than WM. Conclusion Our results indicate that TCM-WM therapy may be superior to therapy with WM alone. However, due to the lower quality of the included studies, high quality of multicenter, large sample, randomized and double-blind controlled trials are needed to validate the result.
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Dr Ronghua Zhang Fangxiang Mu, Yi Jang, Feige Ao, Xiaochuan Hu, Yang Meng, Dejun Jiang and Qinghua Zou
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