title: [Clinical effect of ligustrazine combined with citicoline for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the clinical efficacy of the therapeutic schema for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) with ligustrazine and citicoline injection in combination.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adopting double-centered randomized controlled trial, 300 patients were randomly assigned to 3 groups, who were treated respectively by ligustrazine plus citicoline (group A), ligustrazine alone (group B) and citicoline alone (group C). Clinical efficacy, symptomatic integral (SI), electromyogram ( EMG), blood sugar and blood lipids were assessed 4 weeks after treatment, and the clinical efficacy and SI were assessed at the end of 3-month follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 4-week treatment, improvements of blood sugar and blood lipids were seen in all the three groups, showing insignificant difference among them (P > 0.05). But the clinical efficacy, improvement of SI and EMG in group A were superior to those in group B and C (P < 0.05), while the difference between group B and C was insignificant. No severe adverse reaction was found. Results at the end of 3-month follow-up showed that the clinical efficacy in group A was still better than in the other two groups, so did the SI (6.39 +/- 2.04 vs 8.36 +/- 1.17 and 8.05 +/- 1.34, P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The therapeutic schema of using ligustrazine and citicoline in combination is effective and safe for improving DPN, and worthy of clinical spreading.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, The Second People's Hospital of Chengdu City, Chengdu.
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xing-Wu
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Ran
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003566:Cytidine Diphosphate Choline / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D003566:Cytidine Diphosphate Choline