Review Article

Is Yangxue Qingnao Granule Combined with Antihypertensive Drugs, a New Integrative Medicine Therapy, More Effective Than Antihypertensive Therapy Alone in Treating Essential Hypertension?

Table 2

Quality assessment of included randomized controlled trials.

Included trialsRandom sequence generationAllocation concealmentBlinding of participants and personnelBlinding of outcome assessmentIncomplete outcome dataSelective reportingOther sources of biasRisk of bias

Liu et al., 2009 [30]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Chen et al., 2006 [31]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Ji and Han, 2011 [32]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Yuan, 2006 [33]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Shi, 2011 [34]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesYesUnclearHigh
Li and Wan, 2006 [35]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Liang, 2011 [36]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Fu and Xiao, 2011 [37]Table of random numberUnclearUnclearUnclearYesYesUnclearUnclear
Yang et al., 2008 [38]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Lin and Zhou, 2004 [39]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesYesUnclearHigh
Ai, 2012 [40]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesYesUnclearHigh
Qin, 2008 [41]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh