Effects of acupuncture on vascular dementia (VD) animal models: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia that causes cognitive dysfunction. Acupuncture, an ancient therapy, has been mentioned for the treatment of vascular dementia in previous studies. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of acupuncture in animal models of vascular dementia.

Methods

Experimental animal studies of treating vascular dementia with acupuncture were gathered from Embase, PubMed and Ovid Medline (R) from the dates of the databases' creation to December 2016. We adopted the CAMARADES 10-item checklist to evaluate the quality of the included studies. The Morris water maze test was considered as an outcome measure. The software Stata12.0 was used for the meta-analysis. Heterogeneity was examined using I² statistics, an

SUBMITTER: Zhang ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234685 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature