Objective To investigate the current situation of clinical studies on puerarin for ischemic stroke and the reliability of these evidence.
Methods By electronic searching and handsearching, we collected all the published clinical study reports on puerarin for ischemic stroke and assessed all the included reports according to clinical epidemiologic standard.
Results 35 RCTs, 22 non-randomized controlled trials and 17 case serials studies were included and analysed.
Conclusions Current quality of clinical studies of puerarin for ischemic stroke is not good enough to provide reliable evidence.
Citation: TAN Yan,LIU Ming. Analysis of clinical studies on puerarin for ischemic stroke. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2003, 03(3): 207-209. doi: Copy