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Can Chinese Herbal Medicine Adjunctive Therapy Improve Outcomes of Senile Vascular Dementia? Systematic Review with Meta‐analysis of Clinical Trials
Many publications have reported the growing application of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly the use of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in combination with routine pharmacotherapy (RP) for senile vascular dementia (SVD), but its efficacy remains largely unexplored. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of CHM adjunctive therapy (CHMAT), which is CHM combined with RP, in the treatment of SVD. Publications in seven electronic databases were searched extensively, and 27 trials with a total of 1961 patients were included for analysis. Compared with RP alone, CHMAT significantly increased the ef...
Source: Phytotherapy Research - October 6, 2015 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Lingfeng Zeng, Yuanping Zou, Lingshuo Kong, Ningsheng Wang, Qi Wang, Lu Wang, Ye Cao, Kezhu Wang, Yunbo Chen, Suiqing Mi, Wei Zhao, Haitao Wu, Shuyi Cheng, Weihua Xu, Weixiong Liang Tags: Review Source Type: research

Admission clinical characteristics and early clinical outcomes among acute ischemic stroke patients
Publication date: May 2012 Source:Journal of Biomedical Research, Volume 26, Issue 3 Author(s): Xin Gao , Jintao Zhang , Ying Peng , Huanqing Fan , Mei Chen , Tan Xu , Yonghong Zhang The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between admission clinical characteristics and outcomes at discharge among acute ischemic stroke patients in the Chinese population. A total of 2,673 patients with acute ischemic stroke were included in the present study. The clinical characteristics at admission and other study variables were collected for all patients. The study outcome was defined as neurological deficien...
Source: Journal of Biomedical Research - November 3, 2014 Category: Biochemistry Source Type: research