Abstract
There is a close and causative correlation between stroke and diabetes, and the complication of the 2 diseases seriously harms human health and currently becomes a topic of clinical importance. To date, the common methods of treating diabetic stroke include acupuncture and pharmacological interventions. However, there is no high-quality or direct evidence of their comparative effectiveness. This review aims to provide a network meta-analysis to compare the efficacy of acupuncture and pharmacological interventions in treating diabetic stroke. Databases such as PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Biology Medicine Disc will be searched for relevant randomized controlled trials to obtain literatures on the treatment of diabetic stroke, and clinical randomized controlled trials will be screened out from their inception to December 30, 2022. The participant intervention comparator outcomes of this study are as flowing: P, patients with diabetic stroke; I, acupuncture and pharmacological interventions; C, no treatment, pharmacological placebo, or sham acupuncture groups; O, primary outcome will be blood glucose levels, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and the rate of stroke recurrence; secondary outcomes will include fasting and post-load blood glucose levels, cholesterol, triglycerides, and quality of life scale scores. Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool will be used in assessing literature's quality. Review Manager software 5.3 and Stata 15.1 will be used in data analysis. This systematic review and network meta-analysis will provide evidence of the efficacy of different therapeutic methods in treating diabetic stroke, to show which forms of therapy are more commonly used with higher effectiveness. The results will systematically provide suggestions for medical practitioners to choose the effective, time-saving and economical therapeutic strategy for diabetic stroke.
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