Efficacy and safety of anti‐amyloid‐β immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis

@article{Mo2017EfficacyAS,
  title={Efficacy and safety of anti‐amyloid‐$\beta$ immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis},
  author={Jiajie Mo and Jin-Yu Li and Zheng Yang and Zhou Liu and Jin-Shan Feng},
  journal={Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology},
  year={2017},
  volume={4},
  pages={931 - 942}
}
To review the optimality and safety of different anti‐Amyloid‐β(Aβ) immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Published randomized controlled trials were comprehensively reviewed from electronic databases (Cochrane library, Embase, Pubmed, and Google scholar). Pooled outcomes as mean difference or odds ratio values with 95% confidence interval were reported. The network estimates with confidence and predictive intervals for all pairwise relative effects was evaluated. Optimal intervention… 
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