Clinical efficacy of supplementing qi dispelling wind and activating blood circulation method in the treatment of IgA nephropathy: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a common primary glomerular disease, and supplementing qi dispelling wind and activating blood is commonly used as a treatment method in Chinese medicine. However, the existing studies have small sample sizes. This study aimed to use a meta-analysis to explore the clinical efficacy of this method and to systematically introduce this effective treatment.

Methods

We searched for randomized controlled trial studies on supplementing qi dispelling wind and activating blood circulation methods for IgAN indexed in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data, Chongqing VIP, SinoMed, PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases, which were interrogated from database inception to January 2022. Combining the inclusion and exclusion cri

SUBMITTER: Pan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9997787 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature