Review Article

The Comparative Efficacy of Multiple Acupuncture for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis

Table 10

The results of network meta-analysis of improvement of ADL.

EA + CM

4.78 (−2.25, 11.71)SA + CM
3.69 (−3.37, 10.55)−1.15 (−4.78, 2.55)MA + CM
6.27 (−1.48, 14.18)1.52 (−3.62, 6.90)2.66 (−2.45, 7.88)FA + CM
5.98 (−0.65, 12.69)1.18 (−1.94, 4.51)2.31 (−0.74, 5.49)−0.31 (−5.18, 4.55)MA
8.42 (−0.25, 16.83)3.61 (−2.60, 9.91)4.71 (−1.36, 10.76)2.06 (−5.18, 9.25)2.41 (−3.71, 8.34)EA
7.94 (0.86, 15.02)3.17 (−0.33, 6.73)4.30 (0.39, 8.09)1.61 (−3.98, 6.94)1.96 (−1.50, 5.28)−0.49 (−6.86, 5.87)SA
3.93 (−3.43, 11.41)−0.84 (−5.37, 3.62)0.31 (−4.14, 4.72)−2.34 (−8.18, 3.43)−2.02 (−5.24, 1.14)−4.43 (−11.05, 2.24)−3.99 (−8.51, 0.62)WA
7.94 (1.53, 14.49)3.14 (0.54, 5.90)4.26 (1.81, 6.83)1.62 (−2.99, 6.12)1.94 (0.07, 3.76)−0.46 (−6.13, 5.27)−0.01 (−2.81, 2.91)3.97 (0.41, 7.63)CM

Notes.Significant difference, MA: manual acupuncture, EA: electronic acupuncture, WA: warm acupuncture, FA: fire acupuncture, SA: scalp acupuncture, and CM: conventional medicine.