Medicine
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This study aimed to access the efficacy and safety of integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) combined diabetes. ⋯ As a systematic review and meta-analysis which based on previously published literature, ethical approval, and informed consent from patients are not required.
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Comparative Study
Diabetes mellitus affects long-term survival in hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma patients: A propensity score-matched analysis.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) increases the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and how DM affects the prognosis of HCC have not been elucidated. The aim of this study was to compare clinicopathological characteristics and survival between hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related HCC patients with and without DM and to determine risk factors for overall survival after hepatectomy. Among 474 patients with HBV-related HCC, 119 patients had DM. ⋯ The multivariate analysis indicated that fasting blood glucose >7.0, capsular invasion, microvascular invasion and satellite were independent risk factor of poor prognosis in HCC. DM dose affect the recurrence-free survival and overall survival in HBV-related HCC patients after hepatectomy. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that DM induced higher proportion of major vessel invasion in HCC patients implied unfavorable prognosis.
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This systematic review protocol aims to provide evidence of the efficacy and safety of acupuncture on postoperative recovery and extubation time. ⋯ 2020 CRD42020168411.
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Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is 1 of the most common clinical complications of diabetes, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients and causes a substantial economic burden on diabetes care. The pathogenesis of DPN is complex. There is no targeted treatment method, and mainstream treatment methods have low efficacy and large side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine has rich clinical experience in the prevention and treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, which has dramatically improved the quality of life of patients. It is clinically proven that traditional Chinese medicine fumigants (TCMF) have apparent effects in treating diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Therefore, we aim to systematically review the effectiveness and safety of TCMF for DPN. ⋯ INPLASY2020110137.
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Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) is a common disease in reproductive-age women in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. The incidence of DOR increased quickly in recent years and had became one of the most important factors that made the quality of women life decline. Gynecology and reproductive medicine professors have made great efforts to explore good treatment methods all over the world. Traditional Chinese Medicine has made some achievement in treating DOR as a kind of complementary and alternative therapy In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in recent years, it is indispensable to propose a network meta-analysis (NMA) protocol to discuss the efficacy and safety of TCM in IVF. ⋯ This review does not require ethical approval.