Open AccessAcupuncture therapy and cognitive dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes
Author(s) -
Ting Pan,
Xianghui Zhou,
Xuefeng Liu,
Heran Wang,
Meng Meng,
Yiran Han,
Xiaoxian Qian,
Chunhai Chen,
Xinhua Chen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000026115
Subject(s) - medicine , acupuncture , meta analysis , systematic review , medline , cognition , type 2 diabetes mellitus , alternative medicine , physical therapy , diabetes mellitus , psychiatry , pathology , political science , law , endocrinology
Background: With the aging of society, the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is increasing every year, and there is a clear correlation between T2DM and cognitive dysfunction. Acupuncture therapy has been widely used in the treatment of T2DM, but there is no systematic review on the treatment of T2DM associated with cognitive impairment. Therefore, this study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of acupuncture in the treatment of T2DM with cognitive impairment to clarify its efficacy. Methods: A structured and systematic literature search will be conducted in the following databases up to April 26, 2021: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Web of Science (WOS), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Chinese Scientific and Journal Database (VIP), and Wan Fang database (Wanfang). We will use the Review Manager 5.4 software provided by the Cochrane Collaborative Network for statistical analysis. We then assessed the quality and risk of the included studies and observed the outcome measures. Results: This meta-analysis further determined the beneficial effects of acupuncture on T2DM with cognitive impairment. Conclusion: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to explore the effect of acupuncture on patients T2DM with and cognitive impairment patients, and provide more options for clinicians and patients to treat T2DM with cognitive impairment. Ethics and dissemination: This systematics review will evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of T2DM with cognitive impairment. Since all the data included were published, the systematic review did not require ethical approval. Registration number: CRD42021245681.