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SynthesisBioMed research international2020

Manual Acupuncture or Combination with Vitamin B to Treat Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Hai Lun Jiang, Peng Jia, Yi Hua Fan, Meng Dan Li, Can Can Cao, Yuan Li, Yu Zheng Du

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Synthesis in BioMed research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hai Lun JiangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-5209
Peng JiaTianjin Hospital, Tianjin 300221, China.
Yi Hua FanFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-4004
Meng Dan LiFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.
Can Can CaoFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.
Yuan LiTianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 301617, China.
Yu Zheng DuFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4536-2756
Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNTianjin Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

methodsRandomized controlled trials on manual acupuncture treatment of DPN were retrieved from the Medline, Web of Science, PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, CNKI, WanFang, and VIP databases. Extracted research data were summarized in the tables, and methodological assessment was performed using the risk-of-bias assessment tool of Cochrane. Meta-analysis was performed by Revman 5.3, Stata 14.0, and TSA 0.9.5.10 Beta software.

resultsA total of 18 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) were recruited: (1) 11 RCTs were acupuncture alone compared with vitamin B; (2) 7 RCTs were acupuncture combined with vitamin B compared with vitamin B, involving 1200 participants. Acupuncture alone improved clinical efficacy (

conclusionAcupuncture alone and vitamin B combined with acupuncture are more effective in treating DPN compared to vitamin B. However, more high-quality RCTs on vitamin B combined with acupuncture are required to confirm our results.

Indexed as

Acupuncture TherapyRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicCombined Modality TherapyDiabetic NeuropathiesHumansPeripheral Nervous System DiseasesPublication BiasRiskTreatment OutcomeVitamin B ComplexVitamin B Complex

Identifiers

PMID33954169
PMCPMC8067773
OpenAlexW3107612520

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