Acupuncture for Cancer-Induced Bone Pain in Animal Models: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Figure 5

(a). Forest plot comparing body weight between acupuncture and model. (b). Forest plot comparing spinal cord GFAP between acupuncture and medicine. (c). Forest plot comparing spinal cord IL-1β between single medicine and medicine combined with acupuncture. The black diamond represents the point estimate and 95% confidence interval. The green block at the point estimate of intervention effect with a horizontal line extending either side of the block represents a study. The area of the block indicates the weight assigned to that study in the meta-analysis while the horizontal black line depicts the 95% confidence interval. Statistical method is inverse variance. Random effects model was employed as analysis model. The effect measure was standard mean difference.

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