• 1. Graduate School of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510000, P.R.China;
  • 2. The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518000, P.R.China;
  • 3. Guangdong Engineering and Technology Research Center for Rehabilitation Medicine and Translation, Guangzhou 510000, P.R.China;
  • 4. The HongKong Polytechnic University, HongKong 999077, P.R.China;
LAN Yue, Email: bluemooning@163.com
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Objectives To systematically review the epidemiological characteristics of post-stroke shoulder pain (PSSP).Methods PubMed, WanFang Data, CNKI, EMbase, The Cochrane Library and SinoMed databases were electronically searched to collect studies on the morbidity of PSSP from inception to November 30th, 2019. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed risk of bias of included studies, then, meta-analysis was performed by using Stata 15.0 software.Results A total of 13 studies were included. The total sample size was 3 514, including 1 357 patients with PSSP. The results of meta-analysis showed that the total morbidity of PSSP was 45.0% with 95%CI 32.0% to 58.0%. The results of subgroup analysis showed that the morbidity of PSSP was 55.5% (95%CI 48.1% to 63.0%) prior to 2010 and 40.6% (95%CI 28.3% to 52.9%) after 2010, respectively. The morbidity of PSSP in Asia was 61.2% (95%CI 51.3% to 71.1%), and in Europe and America was 18.4% (95%CI 9.9% to 26.9%), respectively.Conclusions Current evidence suggests that PSSP has high morbidity, and it may be affected by regional factors. Due to limited quality and quantity of the included studies, more high quality studies are required to verify above conclusions.

Citation: ZHANG Qian, PAN Hong, HE Qin, BIAN Minjie, DONG Xueru, GU Meiru, HUANG Zheng, HUANG Dongfeng, LAN Yue. Epidemiological characteristics of post-stroke shoulder pain: a meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2020, 20(9): 1020-1026. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202002049 Copy

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