ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
The Effectiveness and Safety of Acupoint Catgut Embedding for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Evidence mapping and meta-analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for postmenopausal osteoporosis.Medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of acupuncture-related therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Modified acupuncture therapy, long-term acupoint stimulation versus sham control for weight control: a multicenter, randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Trial
- Identifying the effective combination of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for postmenopausal osteoporosis therapy through studies of their molecular regulation of bone homeostasis.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2024Review
- Catgut embedding in acupoints combined with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Comparative efficacy of acupuncture-related therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis: protocol for Bayesian network meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Acupoint catgut embedding for the treatment of peptic ulcers: A protocol for systematic review and meta analysis.Medicine · 2021Article
- Metabolomics Analysis on Mice With Depression Ameliorated by Acupoint Catgut Embedding.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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- Efficacy and Safety of Acupoint Catgut Embedding for Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Review
- Acupoint Thread Embedding Combined With Wenshen Bugu Decoction for the Treatment of Aromatase Inhibitor-Associated Musculoskeletal Symptom Among Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients: Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupoint catgut embedding therapy (ACET) in postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMOP).
methodsReview of some databases from their inception to June 2018 and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in which ACET with PMOP were included. Two researchers extracted and evaluated the information independently. Cochrane Collaboration's tool and Jadad scale were used to evaluate the quality of the studies. RevMan V.5.3.3 software was used to carry out the meta-analysis while trial sequential analysis (TSA) performed with TSA 0.9 software.
results12 RCTs with 876 participants were included in this review. Meta-analysis showed that ACET alone was not superior to medication in effectiveness rate (RR= 1.11; 95% CI (0.89, 1.40);
conclusionsACET combining medication but not ACET alone is more effective than medication as comparison in the treatment of PMOP. As a novel treatment, ACET shows the potential of effectiveness and deserves further high quality of well-designed study.
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