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Journal of Nutrition and Human Health | Volume 2
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October 29-30, 2018 | London, UK
Joint Event
Nutrition and Fitness
16th International Conference on 3rd World Congress on
Card i o l ogy
The effect of auricular therapy on blood pressure: A systematic review and meta-analysis of human
studies
Guang chen
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, China
Although a number of clinical studies have investigated the
effectiveness and safety of auricular therapy for treating
hypertension, the overall evidence remains uncertain. We
aimed to evaluate the evidence for the effect of auricular
therapy on blood pressure using meta-analysis methodology.
We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library databases,
Clinicalkey, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China
Scientific Journal Database and Wanfang Database and
Chinese Biomedicine for trials that compared the effects
of auricular therapy to that of sham auricular therapy,
antihypertensive drugs (AD) or no intervention on blood
pressure. BP value before and after treatment, magnitude of
BP change between baseline and post-intervention and the
efficacy rate, as outcomes, were synthesized by RevMan 5.3.
Continuous outcomes were expressed as a weighted mean
difference (WMD), and dichotomous data were expressed
as relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). We
systematically reviewed forty-four randomized controlled
trials (involving 5,022 patients through June 2018). Auricular
acupressure plus antihypertensive drugs (AAPAD) might be
more effective than AD alone in both reducing SBP value
after treatment (n=464 patients; MD, -5.06 mmHg; 95% CI
-6.76 to -3.36, p<0.00001; I2=32%), decreasing DBP after
treatment (n=464 patients; MD, -5.30 mmHg; 95% CI -6.27
to -4.33, p<0.00001; I2=0%) and the efficacy rate (RR, 1.22;
95% CI, 1.17 to 1.26; p<0.00001; I2=0%). Although 44 trials
were included, the quality of evidence was limited by their
quality. Results from high methodological quality studies
are still warranted to draw definitive conclusions in terms of
effectiveness of auricular therapy.
Speaker Biography
Guang Chen, fromBeijing University of ChineseMedicine and China Academy of Chinese
Medical Sciences. His research mainly focus on the R&D of Chinese herbal medicine in
treatment of cardiovascular diseases, genetic and epigenetic mechanism of Chinese
herbal medicine and cell targeting Aptamers for Nanotheranostics using Cell-SELEX.
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