Review Article
Chinese Herbal Medicine Paratherapy for Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-Analysis of 19 Randomized Controlled Trials
Table 7
Forest plot of comparison: Chinese herbal medicine versus conventional treatment: UPDRS IV scores.
| Study or subgroup | Experimental | Control | Mean difference | Mean difference | Mean | SD | Total | Mean | SD | Total | Weight | IV, fixed, 95% CI | IV, fixed, 95% CI |
| Fan et al. [31] | 3 | 2.708 | 30 | 3.73 | 2.716 | 30 | 5.4% | −0.73 [−2.10, 0.64] | | Hong [30] | 11.19 | 2.59 | 38 | 11.96 | 2.36 | 38 | 8.2% | −0.77 [−1.88, 0.34] | Kum et al. [27] | 3.36 | 2.42 | 22 | 5.08 | 3.53 | 25 | 3.5% | −1.72 [−3 43, −0.01] | Luo et al. [21] | 0.92 | 1.23 | 22 | 1.04 | 1.148 | 19 | 19.2% | −0.12 [−0.85, 0.61] | Pan et al. [35] | 2.7 | 1.3 | 56 | 3 | 1.4 | 54 | 39.8% | −0.30 [−0.81, 0.21] | Wu et al. [34] | 0.66 | 1.08 | 40 | 1.55 | 2.12 | 40 | 18.7% | −0.89 [−1.63, −0.15] | Zheng and Luo [22] | 2.9 | 2.81 | 30 | 3.73 | 2.72 | 30 | 5.2% | −0.83 [−2.23, 0.57] | Total (95% Cl) | | | 238 | | | 236 | 100.0% | −0.51 [−0.83, −0.20] | Heterogeneity: Chi2 = 5.21; df = 6 (); l 2 = 0% | | | | Test for overall effect: = 3.16 () | | | | |
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