• 1. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 2. Library of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 3. Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 4. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R.China;
  • 5. Key Laboratory of Evidence Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R.China;
  • 6. Chinese GRADE Center, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R.China;
  • 7. Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education and Beijing, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, P.R.China;
SHANG Hongcai, Email: shanghongcai@foxmail.com
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Objective  To assess the effectiveness of acupunctures in treatment of primary dysmenorrhea by using network meta-analysis. Methods  Databases including the PubMed, EMbase, The Cochrane Library (Issue 6, 2016), CBM, CNKI and WanFang Data were searched for relevant clinical randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing acupunctures with ibuprofen or other kinds of acupuncture from inception to July 6th 2016. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. Then meta-analysis was performed by using Stata 13.0 and WinBugs 1.43 software. Results  A total of 56 RCTs involving 4 600 PD patients were included. The results of network meta-analysis showed that: for the clinical effects: simple acupuncture, acupuncture plus moxa-moxibustion, acupuncture plus indirect-moxibustion, electroacupuncture, warm-acupuncture and electroacupuncture plus warm-acupuncture were superior to ibuprofen, acupuncture plus moxa-moxibustion, acupuncture plus indirect-moxibustion and warm-acupuncture were superior to simple acupuncture. For VAS score, there was no significant difference among all treatments. Simple acupuncture and ibuprofen were superior to acupuncture plus indirect-moxibustion in dysmenorrhea symptom scores. Conclusion  The included 6 kinds of acupunctures are superior to ibuprofen and different acupunctures have different advantages in the treatment of PD. When selecting treatment regimen, it is better to consider the clinical situation and TCM syndrome differentiation.

Citation: LI Ge, SI Jinhua, ZHAO Chen, GE Long, TIAN Jinhui, SHANG Hongcai, WANG Zixin, XU Xiangling, WANG Shuhe. Network meta-analysis on clinical effects of acupuncture in treatment of primary dysmenorrhea. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(10): 1212-1223. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201612056 Copy

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