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

Table 7

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

EA + CM
1.38 (−5.09, 7.76)	FA + CM
3.27 (−1.35, 7.83)	1.92 (−3.64, 7.38)	SA + CM
4.25 (−0.72, 9.02)	2.90 (−3.01, 8.53)	0.96 (−2.50, 4.27)	SA
3.94 (−0.71, 8.48)	2.58 (−3.03, 8.07)	0.69 (−2.63, 4.00)	−0.30 (−3.80, 3.32)	EA
3.02 (−1.73, 7.68)	1.62 (−4.10, 7.22)	−0.27 (−3.71, 3.17)	−1.25 (−4.93, 2.67)	−0.94 (−4.40, 2.51)	MA + CM
4.43 (0.04, 8.70)	3.03 (−2.47, 8.28)	1.11 (−1.85, 4.12)	0.14 (−3.11, 3.59)	0.43 (−2.44, 3.40)	1.36 (−1.79, 4.54)	MA
4.00 (−1.77, 9.60)	2.64 (−3.98, 8.94)	0.69 (−4.05, 5.44)	−0.29 (−5.12, 4.77)	−0.02 (−4.71, 4.64)	0.96 (−3.86, 5.77)	−0.41 (−4.03, 3.21)	WA
3.85 (−2.82, 10.46)	2.47 (−4.81, 9.91)	0.53 (−5.25, 6.55)	−0.42 (−6.46, 5.83)	−0.13 (−5.99, 5.78)	0.87 (−5.12, 6.92)	−0.57 (−6.19, 5.25)	−0.09 (−6.89, 6.73)	WA + CM
5.49 (1.51, 9.41)	4.14 (−1.07, 9.12)	2.21 (−0.16, 4.62)	1.26 (−1.42, 4.10)	1.53 (−0.74, 3.86)	2.46 (−0.06, 5.07)	1.09 (−0.71, 2.90)	1.53 (−2.57, 5.65)	1.66 (−3.83, 7.03)	CM

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