Acupuncture May Be a Potential Complementary Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Network Meta-Analysis

Table 4

Evaluation of inconsistency using loop-specific heterogeneity estimates for total effect.

Loop	ROR	z_value	_value	CI_95	Loop_Heterog_tau2
A-C-D	1.244	1.622	0.105	(1.00, 1.62)	0.000
A-B-C	1.232	1.641	0.101	(1.00, 1.58)	0.000
B–C-D	1.171	1.652	0.099	(1.00, 1.41)	0.000
B–C–F	1.106	0.994	0.320	(1.00, 1.35)	0.000
A-B-D	1.064	0.522	0.601	(1.00, 1.34)	0.004

A-Herbal medicine. B-Western medicine. C-Acupuncture. D-Acupuncture + Herbal medicine. E-Acupuncture + Herbal medicine + Western medicine. F-Acupuncture + Western medicine.