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Acupressure for Respiratory Allergic Diseases: A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials

Overview of attention for article published in Acupuncture in Medicine, December 2018
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Title
Acupressure for Respiratory Allergic Diseases: A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials
Published in
Acupuncture in Medicine, December 2018
DOI 10.1136/acupmed-2016-011354
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Authors

Yaqun Liang, George Binh Lenon, Angela Wei Hong Yang

Abstract

To evaluate the effects and safety of acupressure for the management of respiratory allergic diseases by systematically reviewing randomised controlled trials (RCTs). A total of 13 electronic English and Chinese databases were searched until July 2017. Two authors extracted data and evaluated risk of bias independently. Review Manager V.5.3 was employed for data analysis. The literature search identified 186 papers, of which only four of met the inclusion criteria: two for allergic rhinitis (AR) and two for asthma. High and unclear risk of bias existed across all the included studies. The findings demonstrated that acupressure greater effects on the relief of nasal symptoms of AR compared with 1% ephedrine nasal drop plus thermal therapy. With either Western medicine or Chinese herbal medicine as a cointervention, one study indicated that acupressure plus salbutamol was led to a significantly greater improvement of pulmonary function for patients with asthma compared with salbutamol only. However, the remaining two studies indentified no significant differences in any outcome measures between the two groups. No reliable conclusions regarding the effects of acupressure on AR and asthma could be drawn by this review due to the small number of available trials with significant heterogeneity of study design and high/unclear risk of bias. Further, more rigorously designed RCTs are needed.Acupressure seems safe for symptomatic relief of AR and asthma, although larger studies are required to be able to robustly confirm its safety. ACTRN12617001106325; Pre-results.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Librarian 2 5%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 13 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Physics and Astronomy 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 13 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 July 2023.
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#13
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