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The effectiveness and safety of Chinese herbal formulas on skin photoaging: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ji-Yong He, Xiao-Yv Yv, Jing-Dong Wu, Ling Lv, Xiao-Qing Zhang, Tie-Ming Ma, Yu Zhang

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Article in Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Ji-Yong HeGraduate School, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.ORCID 0000-0002-8132-7544
Xiao-Yv YvAffiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Jing-Dong WuLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital 2nd Affiliated Hospital.
Ling LvLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Xiao-Qing ZhangLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Tie-Ming MaLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Yu ZhangLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNDirectorate of Weed Research · IN

Funding

Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province NO.20170540605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSkin photoaging (SP) is a complex and complicated process of skin characteristic changes caused by excessive sunlight. Wrinkles, looseness, coarseness, and increase or loss of pigment are the main clinical manifestations of the disease. The pathogenesis of SP mainly involving oxidative stress, inflammatory reaction, immune dysregulation and DNA damage, and so on. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine, as an significant form of complementary and alternative medicine, has attracted the more and more attention within the field of health care and indicated a desirable effect on SP. Chinese herbal formula (CHF) is an essential part of traditional Chinese medicine interventions, and the number of clinical trails on SP treated by CHFs have shown a growing trend. Therefore, we developed this systematic review and meta-analysis protocol to assess the effectiveness and safety of CHFs in the therapy of SP, so as to provide reliable evidence-based evidence for clinical decision-making.

methodsA overall literature retrieval will be carried out in 9 electronic journal database. We will include randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on CHFs alone or combined with routine western medicine measures in the treatment of SP. The outcomes we focused on are consists of symptom score (skin relaxation, telangiectasia, pore coarseness, pigmentation, etc), total effective rate, and adverse reactions. Meta-analysis will be performed using Stata 13.0 software. Literature retrieval and screening, data extraction, risk of bias assessment of RCTs, evidence confidence rating by grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation method and methodological quality assessment of systematic review by assessment of multiple systematic reviews-2 will be conducted independently by 2 reviewers, and disagreements will be resolved through discussion or judged by a third senior reviewer.

resultsThis systematic review and meta-analysis will pool the proof of RCTs on SP treated by CHFs alone or combined with conventional western medicine treatments. The findings of this study will be presented at relevant conferences and submitted to peer-reviewed journals for publication.

conclusionWe expect that the results of this systematic review will provide comprehensive and reliable evidence for clinicians and policy makers. REGISTRATION NUMBER: INPLASY 2020120005.

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Drugs, Chinese HerbalHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicSkin AgingSystematic Reviews as TopicDrugs, Chinese Herbal

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