Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for polycystic ovary syndrome:An overview of systematic reviews
作者机构:Acupuncture and Tuina SchoolChengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610075Sichuan ProvinceChina College of Medical Information and EngineeringChengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610075Sichuan ProvinceChina Traditional Chinese Medicine DepartmentChengdu Xinan Gynecological HospitalChengdu 610051Sichuan ProvinceChina Infertility ClinicChengdu Xinan Gynecological HospitalChengdu 610051Sichuan ProvinceChina Health Preservation and Rehabilitation SchoolChengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610075Sichuan ProvinceChina
出 版 物:《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2023年第21卷第2期
页 面:136-148页
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学科分类:1005[医学-中医学] 100512[医学-针灸推拿学] 10[医学]
基 金:supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82174517)
主 题:Acupuncture Polycystic ovary syndrome Systematic review Meta-analysis
摘 要:Background:Polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS)is the primary cause of anovulatory infertility,bringing serious harm to women’s physical and mental *** may be an effective treatment for ***,systematic reviews(SRs)on the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for PCOS have reported inconsistent results,and the quality of these studies has not been adequately ***:To summarize and evaluate the current evidence on the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for PCOS,as well as to assess the quality and risks of bias of the available *** strategy:Nine electronic databases(Cochrane Library,MEDLINE,Embase,PsycINFO,CINAHL,Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure,Wanfang Data,Chongqing VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database,and China Biology Medicine disc)were searched from their establishment to July 27,*** on the principle of combining subject words with text words,the search strategy was constructed around search terms for“acupuncture,“polycystic ovary syndrome,and“systematic review.Inclusion criteria:SRs of randomized controlled trials that explored the efficacy and(or)safety of acupuncture for treating patients with PCOS were *** extraction and analysis:Two authors independently extracted study data according to a predesigned *** for evaluating the methodological quality,risk of bias,reporting quality,and confidence in study outcomes,including A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews 2(AMSTAR 2),Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews(ROBIS),Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Metaanalyses for Acupuncture(PRISMA-A),and the Grading of Recommendations Assessment,Development and Evaluation(GRADE),were used to score the included ***:A total of 885 studies were retrieved,and 11 eligible SRs were finally included in this *** methodological quality of 2 SRs(18.18%)was low,while the other 9 SRs(81.82%)were scored as extremely *** SRs(36.36%)were considered to be of