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Acupuncture for adults with overactive bladder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Synthesis in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05485142 (The Treatment Efficacy of Prolotherapy in Bladder Voiding Dysfunction), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Treatment Efficacy of Prolotherapy in Bladder Voiding Dysfunction
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupuncture for treating overactive bladder in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Acupuncture for the treatment of overactive bladder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Phase 1/2 Randomized Clinical Trial of In-clinic acupuncture Prior to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in Patients with High-risk Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer.European urology oncology · 2024Trial
- Thread Embedding Acupuncture in Postmenopausal Women with Overactive Bladder: A Prospective, Single-Arm, Before-After Study.International journal of women's health · 2024Trial
- Electroacupuncture for women with urgency-predominant mixed urinary incontinence: secondary analysis of a randomized noninferiority trial.World journal of urology · 2020Trial
- Symptom Trends Among Evacuees Treated with Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Shelters Located at the Epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes in Japan.Medical acupuncture · 2026Article
- Thread-Embedding versus Manual Acupuncture for Overactive Bladder in Postmenopausal Women: Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Acupuncture therapy of overactive bladder: An umbrella review and meta-analysis.Arab journal of urology · 2025Review
- Acupuncture for Women with Overactive Bladder: Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Related Mechanism.International journal of general medicine · 2023Review
- Effects of acupuncture to decrease adverse events in patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer receiving induction intravesical BCG therapy: Study protocol for a randomized, controlled pilot and feasibility study.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- Diagnosis and Non-Surgical Management of Urinary Incontinence - A Literature Review with Recommendations for Practice.International journal of general medicine · 2021Review
- Effect of electroacupuncture versus solifenacin for moderate and severe overactive bladder: a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial study protocol.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2020Article
- A protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis of acupuncture for drug resistant epilepsy.Medicine · 2020Article
- A randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for overactive bladder: a study in Hong Kong population.Chinese medicine · 2020Article
- Laser Acupuncture Alleviates Symptoms and Improves Quality of Life in Women with Overactive Bladder: A Double-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundOveractive bladder is stated as the occurrence of urinary urgency which will cause negative impacts and decrease patients' health-related quality of life. The aim of this systematic review is to assess the efficiency and safety of acupuncture for adults with overactive bladder (OAB) comparing with sham-acupuncture, drugs, and acupuncture plus drugs.
methodsWe independently searched 9 databases from beginning to August 15, 2017. Two writers extracted data at the same time independently. Study outcomes were calculated by standardized mean differences (SMD) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and mean difference (MD) with 95% CIs.
resultsTen randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with 794 patients were included in this systematic review. The combined results showed that electroacupuncture (EA) may be more effective than sham electroacupuncture (sham EA) in improving the 24-hour nocturia episodes and EA may enhance tolterodine for relieving voiding symptoms and enhancing patients' quality of life. However, more trials with high quality and larger sample sizes will be needed in the future to provide sufficient evidence. Only 15 of 794 OAB patients from the included studies reported mild adverse reactions related to EA, therefore, acupuncture is safe for treating OAB.
conclusionAcupuncture might have effect in decreasing the number of micturition episodes, incontinence episodes, and nocturia episodes. However, the evidence is insufficient to show the effect using acupuncture alone or the additional effect to drugs in treating OAB.
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