Cupping therapy for patients with chronic urticaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Cupping therapy for patients with chronic urticaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis作者机构:Acupuncture and Tuina SchoolChengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610000Sichuan ProvinceChina Rehabilitation Departmentthe People’s Hospital of Jianyang CityChengdu 641400Sichuan ProvinceChina Dermatological DepartmentAffiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610000Sichuan ProvinceChina Graduate SchoolChengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChengdu 610000Sichuan ProvinceChina
出 版 物:《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2020年第18卷第4期
页 面:303-312页
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学科分类:1006[医学-中西医结合] 1005[医学-中医学] 100502[医学-中医临床基础] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学]
主 题:Cupping Chronic urticaria Systematic review Meta-analysis Antihistamines Acupuncture
摘 要:Background:Chronic urticaria(CU)is a common skin disease,which has a negative effect on quality of *** treatments do not fully control the symptoms of urticaria for many CU patients,thus effective and safe treatments for CU are still ***:This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of cupping therapy in patients with *** strategy:The search strategy looked for the presence of related keywords,such as‘‘chronic urticariaand‘‘cupping therapy,in the title and abstract of research articles indexed in major *** controlled trials(RCTs)were selected after querying nine electronic databases from their inception to May 2019 with the above search *** criteria:RCTs were included if they recruited patients with CU who were intervened with dry or wet *** could be written in Chinese or *** extraction and analysis:Data were extracted,and the studies were assessed for the quality of their methodological design and risk of ***-analyses of the RCT data were conducted to assess the total effective rate of the treatment as the primary *** disease quality of life index score,recurrence rate,and adverse events were assessed as secondary *** analyses were conducted based on different ***:Thirteen comparisons from 12 RCTs involving 842 participants were *** were no significant differences between wet cupping and medications in total effective rate(n=372;risk ratio[RR]=1.10,95%confidence interval[CI]0.97 to 1.25;P=0.14)or recurrence rate(n=240;RR=0.56,95%CI 0.23 to 1.36;P=0.20).Cupping therapy,in combination with antihistamine treatment was more efficacious than antihistamines alone,with a greater total effective rate(n=342;RR=1.18,95%CI 1.01 to1.39;P=0.03)and lower recurrence rate(n=342;RR=0.52,95%CI 0.32 to 0.84;P=0.007).Cupping therapy combined with acupuncture was more effective than acupuncture alone(n=156;RR=1.25,95%CI 1.07 to 1.46;