• Department of Neurology; West China Hospital; Sichuan University; Chengdu 6/0041; China;
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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