Acupuncture for Hypertension in Animal Models: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to summarize and evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture in hypertension animal study.

Methods

Studies were searched from six databases, including Medline, Embase, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data, VIP information database, and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. Study quality of each included study was evaluated according to the Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines, and the risk of bias was evaluated by the Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE) tool. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) were selected as outcomes. Meta-analyses were performed using Stata 12.0 software. The effect size was cal

SUBMITTER: Xiao LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8523269 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature