ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2018
The Effect of Naoxintong Capsule in the Treatment of Patients with Cerebral Infarction and Carotid Atherosclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials.
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- Naoxintong Is Involved in the Coagulation Regulation of Warfarin Through the MAPK Pathway.Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative efficacy of Chinese patent medicines in patients with carotid atherosclerotic plaque: a Bayesian network meta- analysis.Chinese medicine · 2023Review
- An Energy Metabolism Study on the Efficacy of Naoxintong Capsules against Myocardial Infarction in a Rat Model.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022Article
- Naoxintong Capsule Alternates Gut Microbiota and Prevents Hyperlipidemia in High-Fat-Diet Fed Rats.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant pharmcodynamic compoents of naoxintong capsules as a basis of broad spectrum effects.Pharmaceutical biology · 2021Article
- Myocardial protective effect and transcriptome profiling of Naoxintong on cardiomyopathy in zebrafish.Chinese medicine · 2021Article
- Assessing Clinical Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine Interventions: Moving Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
- Integrated metabolomics and gut microbiome to the effects and mechanisms of naoxintong capsule on type 2 diabetes in rats.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Investigation of InvigoratingFrontiers in pharmacology · 2020Article
- A Metabonomics Investigation into the Therapeutic Effects of BuChang NaoXinTong Capsules on Reversing the Amino Acid-Protein Interaction Network of Cerebral Ischemia.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2019Article
- Effect of Naoxintong Capsules on the Activities of CYP450 and Metabolism of Metoprolol Tartrate in Rats Evaluated by Probe Cocktail and Pharmacokinetic Methods.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Article
- Specific DNA identification of Pheretima in the Naoxintong capsule.Chinese medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveNaoxintong capsule (NXT) has been widely used to treat patients with cerebral infarction and carotid atherosclerosis. However, it is uncertain whether there is robust evidence on the effects of NXT for cerebral infarction and carotid atherosclerosis. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials were performed to assess the efficacy of NXT in the treatment of cerebral infarction and carotid atherosclerosis.
methodsThe Cochrane Library, EMBASE, the Medline database, the Wanfang database, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and the VIP database were searched up to January 2018 with no language restrictions. Study selection, data extraction, quality assessment, and data analyses were performed according to the Cochrane standards.
resultsEleven studies (N=1141) in total satisfied the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. The results of meta-analysis showed that compared with the conventional therapy alone, NXT combined with conventional therapy could significantly improve national institutes of health stroke scale (NIHSS) score (MD= -3.92, 95%CI: -4.31~-3.52,
conclusionsNXT is an effective and safe therapy option for patients with cerebral infarction and carotid atherosclerosis. However, due to the high clinical heterogeneity and small sample size of the included trials, further standardized preparation, large-scale and rigorously designed trials are needed.
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