†These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editor: Gianluca Campo
The potential modifiable factors for remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) in
reducing contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) in patients with acute
myocardial infarction (AMI) have not been investigated. The aim of this
meta-regression was to address these issues.We searched Pubmed, Embase and the
Cochrane Library database for published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with
registration number CRD42020155532. Nine RCTs comprising of 1540 subjects were
included in our meta-analysis. Compared with control group, RIC was associated
with reduced incidence of CA-AKI [(9 studies, 1540 subjects, relative risk (RR)
0.51, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 0.35 to 0.76, p = 0.000, I