SynthesisEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2017
A systematic review and meta-analysis of complementary and alternative medicine in asthma.
Synthesis in European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Information Survey on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- The use of complementary and alternative medicine by adults with allergies: a Czech national representative survey.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2021Article
- Asthma patients' perception on their care pathway: a qualitative study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2019Article
- Perceptions of complementary/alternative medicine use and influence on evidence-based asthma medicine adherence in Malaysian children.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2019Article
- IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL STRESS SUSCEPTIBILITY USING GENOMIC AND IMMUNE BIOMARKERS.Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association · 2019Article
- Utilization of apitherapy in allergic asthma: A systematic review of clinical and preclinical studies.Tzu chi medical journalArticle
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Abstract
Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease affecting around 235 million people worldwide. Conventional medications in asthma are not curative and patients have significant concerns regarding their side-effects. Consequently, many asthma patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for a more holistic approach to care. We systematically reviewed the available evidence on the effectiveness of CAM in the management of asthma in adults.We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED and Cochrane databases for randomised controlled trials published in English between 1990 and 2016 investigating the effectiveness of oral or topical CAM in asthmatic adults. The quality of the studies was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool.In all, 23 eligible trials were identified covering 19 different CAMs. Overall, there was limited evidence on the effectiveness of CAM in adult asthma as most CAMs were only assessed in a single trial. CAMs with multiple trials provided null or inconsistent results. Many of the trials were rated as having high risk of bias.The existing evidence is insufficient to recommend any of the oral and topical CAMs in the management of asthma in adults.
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