Meta-Analysis
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2025. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Clin Cases. Feb 26, 2025; 13(6): 95513
Published online Feb 26, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i6.95513
Efficacy and safety of Tripterygium wilfordii glycosides tablets combined with Western medicine for patients with rheumatic immune diseases
Hang Shu, Xiao-Yu Chen, Jie Zhao, Pin Li, Zhen Sun
Hang Shu, Jie Zhao, Pin Li, Zhen Sun, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou Special Service Recuperation Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
Xiao-Yu Chen, Department of Convalescence, Hangzhou Special Service Recuperation Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
Author contributions: Shu H and Sun Z designed this study; Chen XY, Zhao J, and Li P conducted data extraction, quality assessment, statistical analysis, and decision analysis; Shu H wrote the first draft; all of the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Zhen Sun, Doctor, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou Special Service Recuperation Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, No. 5 Wenquan Road, Tangshan Street, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China. 17768612617@163.com
Received: April 11, 2024
Revised: October 3, 2024
Accepted: November 7, 2024
Published online: February 26, 2025
Processing time: 227 Days and 19.6 Hours
Core Tip

Core Tip: The safety and efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine still need to be evaluated by scientific methods. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Tripterygium wilfordii polyglycosides tablets combined with Western medicine in the treatment of rheumatic immune diseases by meta-analysis.