• 1. Institute of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China;
  • 2. Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, China;
ZHAIHua-qiang, Email: zhaihq@bucm.edu.cn
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Objective To systematically review the effects of aminophylline combined with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of asthma. Methods Databases including The Cochrane Library(Issue 1, 2015), PubMed, EMbase, CNKI, VIP and WanFang Data databases were electronically searched from January 2005 to December 2014 to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) about the treatment of bronchial asthma combining aminophylline with TCM. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. Then, meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software. Results A total of 10 RCTs involving 820 participants were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that: The total clinical effective rate in the aminophylline plus TCM group was higher than that of the aminophylline alone group (RR=1.22, 95%CI 1.11 to 1.33). The FEV1 in the aminophylline plus TCM group was also higher than that of the aminophylline alone group (MD=0.53, 95%CI 0.33 to 0.73). Conclusion Current evidence shows, the total clinical effective rate of aminophylline combined with TCM for asthma is better than that of aminophylline alone, and its mechanism may be related to the improvement of FEV1. Due to the limited quantity and quality of included studies, the above conclusion needs to be further verified by more high quality studies.

Citation: LISi-yu, LIRui, TIANWei-lan, SHANGHong-cai, ZHAIHua-qiang. Aminophylline combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine for Asthma: A Meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2015, 15(11): 1322-1326. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20150217 Copy

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