Chinese medicine treatment of cough variant asthma systematic review of randomized controlled trials.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Chinese medicine treatment of cough variant asthma systematic review of randomized controlled trials Of: Zhang Tiansong, Jean Lee, Chang Su, Yang Kemin, Wang [Keywords:] cough variant asthma, Chinese medicine, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews Cough variant asthma (cough variant asthma), also known as occult asthma or cough asthma, chronic cough is the main or only clinical manifestation of a special type of asthma, bronchodilator therapy effective, but easy to relapse after stopping . if not active treatment, about 10% to 50% of asthma patients can become a typical [1-2]. In recent years, many scholars try to apply Chinese medicine treatment of the disease, and there are more reports of clinical trials, timely These randomized controlled trials to study the systematic evaluation of the quality and efficacy to obtain the evidence of medical treatment of the disease to guide future clinical studies. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 The inclusion and exclusion criteria ① patients with cough variant asthma for the study of randomized controlled trials, the subjects agedgt; 12 years of research into, the object of children excluded from the study. ② interventions in the treatment group for a variety of pure Chinese medicine, Western medicine control group or other traditional Chinese medicine preparation of studies into the treatment group interventions for Integrated Medicine were excluded. ③ provides a treatment group and control group efficacy results for the cure (clinical control), markedly effective, effective (better), no other digital data (level) The study included no specific digital data were excluded. 1.2 Search strategy We searched PubMed (1972.01-2008.06), Medline (1950-2007), Cochrane Library (Issue 3, 2008), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBMDISC ,1978.01-2008 .06), Articles Full-text database (Journal of Medicine 1998 - 2007, 1998-2006 dissertations, conference papers 1998-2006), ha