Ayurveda in Knee Osteoarthritis-Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ayurveda is widely practiced in South Asia in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of these secondary data analyses were to identify the most relevant variables for treatment response and group differences between Ayurvedic therapy compared to conventional therapy in knee OA patients.

Methods

A total of 151 patients (Ayurveda n = 77, conventional care n = 74) were analyzed according to the intention-to-treat principle in a randomized controlled trial. Different statistical approaches including generalized linear models, a radial basis function (RBF) network, exhausted CHAID, classification and regression trees (CART), and C5.0 with adaptive boosting were applied.

Results

The RBF network implicated that the therapy arm and the baseline

SUBMITTER: Kessler CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9181350 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature