Cordyceps sinensis (a traditional Chinese medicine) for treating chronic kidney disease

Zhang, Hong Wei; Lin, Zhi Xiu; Tung, Yuk; Kwan, Tze-Hoi; Mok, Chun Keung; Leung, Connie; Chan, Lai Sum

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd008353.pub2

Cited by 41 publications

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“…Importantly, some of these brand names may violate the Chinese Trademark Law which prohibits the use of government locations, province names, and city names as commercial product brands 4. Some of them convey erroneous messages about health effects of cigarettes,5 6 which is in conflict with Article 11 of the FCTC 3. Other brand names are closely tied to significant cultural elements, such as Panda cigarettes, named for an animal that is the national treasure in the country, and Double Happiness cigarettes, a symbol of marriage and happiness in Chinese culture.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Would a cigarette by any other name taste as good in China?: Table 1

2016

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Would a cigarette by any other name taste as good in China?: Table 1

2016

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“…Eighteen of the remaining reviews included fewer than six studies, whereas another four included more than 20. The final two reviews (Anderson & Taylor, 2014;Zhang et al, 2014) (2014) is an overview of systematic reviews on a particular topic. Because this kind of review is rare, I excluded it from this study as not being representative of the majority of systematic reviews.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because this kind of review is rare, I excluded it from this study as not being representative of the majority of systematic reviews. Zhang et al (2014) is on the use of a traditional Chinese medicine for treating a specific disease. The included studies in this review were all published in Chinese language journals that are not indexed by citation databases, so the proposed method could not be applied to them.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citation analysis as a literature search method for systematic reviews

Belter

2015

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Systematic reviews are essential for evaluating biomedical treatment options, but the growing size and complexity of the available biomedical literature combined with the rigor of the systematic review method mean that systematic reviews are extremely difficult and labor‐intensive to perform. In this article, I propose a method of searching the literature by systematically mining the various types of citation relationships between articles. I then test the method by comparing its precision and recall to that of 14 published systematic reviews. The method successfully retrieved 74% of the studies included in these reviews and 90% of the studies it could reasonably be expected to retrieve. The method also retrieved fewer than half of the total number of publications retrieved by these reviews and can be performed in substantially less time. This suggests that the proposed method offers a promising complement to traditional text‐based methods of literature identification and retrieval for systematic reviews.

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“…The typical daily dosage is 3–9 g 16 . In Western medicine, Cordyceps is proposed to provide health benefits, including antitumor activity, immune‐modulating activity, antioxidant activity, antihyperglycemic activity, sexual enhancement activity, and antifatigue activity 15 , 18 – 20 . Kai et al 19 investigated the protective effect of Cordyceps on contrast‐induced nephropathy in 120 patients with type 2 diabetes and renal insufficiency undergoing coronary angiography.…”

Section: Cordycepsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, most studies on Cordyceps are animal studies, in vitro studies, or ex vivo studies, and conclusions on the efficacy of Cordyceps are difficult to make 22 – 24 . A systematic review on the efficacy of Cordyceps in treating chronic kidney disease found no definite conclusion due to the poor quality of evidence 20 . Another systematic review explored the biological and pharmacological activities of C sinensis and Cordyceps militaris and found that the efficacy of proposed functions of C sinensis was not well supported by currently evidence.…”

Section: Cordycepsmentioning

confidence: 99%