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SynthesisAmerican journal of men's health

Evaluation of Clinical Effect of Acupuncture on Chronic Prostatitis: Meta Analysis.

Wen Fang, Shi Wang, Jin-Kai Dong, Jing-Yun Zhang, Xue-Chao Li, Cheng-Wei Fu, Qing-Guo Liu

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Synthesis in American journal of men's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Wen FangSchool of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Shi WangDepartment of Neurology, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Jin-Kai DongSenior Department of Urology, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Jing-Yun ZhangDepartment of Urology, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Xue-Chao LiSenior Department of Urology, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Cheng-Wei FuSenior Department of Urology, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7521-6952
Qing-Guo LiuSchool of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the clinical efficacy of acupuncture and moxibustion in CP treatment and assess the quality of clinical literature. Controlled clinical trials (CCT) and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from PubMed, Web of Science, NLM, CNKI, and Wanfang (January 2003 to January 2023) were analyzed. Relevant data were extracted and statistically analyzed using RevMan 5.1 software. Twenty high-quality papers (JADAD≥3) involving 1,661 patients were included. Meta-analysis showed a significant difference in the overall response rate between the test and control groups in CP treatment (odds ratio [OR] = 4.08 [95% CI = 3.13, 5.33],

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Acupuncture TherapyMoxibustionProstatitisChronic DiseaseHumansMaleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment Outcomeacupuncturechronic prostatitismeta-analysistherapeutic effect

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PMID39745239
PMCPMC11696988

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