Review Article
Traditional East Asian Herbal Medicine for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Scoping Review
Table 4
Review of retrospective studies.
| First author (year) | Country | Sample size | Sex (M:F) | Average age | Duration of disease (average) | Diagnosed by | Outcomes |
| Jeon et al. (1997) [38] | Korea | 17 | 12:5 | 52.4 | No mention | Diagnostic criteria by Jokelainen et al. | Analyzing the age of onset, clinical signs, ALS type, treatment methods, outcomes, etc. | Li et al. (2017) [39] | China | 288 | 169:119 | No mention | No mention | El Escorial criteria | Analyzing the clinical characteristics, survival rate, and TCM syndrome in patients with ALS |
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M, male; F, female; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; and TCM, traditional Chinese medicine.
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