Tonifying Kidney,Lung,and Spleen Combined with Western Medicine for Stable Chronic Obstruc

Tonifying Kidney,Lung,and Spleen Combined with Western Medicine for Stable Chronic Obstructive

Pulmonary Disease:A Systematic Review

Ying-Ying Liu; Zhen Gao

【期刊名称】《世界中医药杂志：英文版》 【年(卷),期】2019(005)004

【摘要】Introduction:This study aimed to evaluate the clinical effectiveness

and

safety

of

tonifying

kidney,lung,and

spleen(TKLS)combined with Western medicine for stable chronic obstructive

pulmonary

disease(COPD).Materials

and

Methods:Randomized controlled trials(RCTs)of TKLS for stable COPD were searched from four databases including Pub Med,the Cochrane Library,China Biology Medicine,and China National Knowledge Infrastructure from inception to December 2017.Two reviewers independently screened the literature,extracted the data,and assessed the risk of bias in the included studies.Rev Man5.3 software was used for meta-analysis.Results:Fourteen RCTs involving 1339 patients with stable COPD were included.Five of the included articles described the specific method of randomization,1 of them was double-blind method research,and 1 of them was single-blind method research.Compared with the conventional Western medicine(CWM)group,the use of TKLS,if combined with CWM demonstrated significantly improved effective