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The databases PubMed, Cinahl Plus, Google Scholar, and Scopus were searched, and papers from January 1980 to January 2023 were deemed eligible and filtered using predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The primary outcome was the incidence of hypotension. Secondary outcomes were the duration of sensory block, duration of motor block, incidence of bradycardia, ephedrine usage, and duration of analgesia. Jadad scores were used to evaluate the quality of the papers. RevMan statistical software\u00ae utilised inverse variance and a random effect model to calculate the standardised mean difference with 95% confidence intervals for continuous variables and the Mantel\u2013Haenszel test and the random effect model to calculate the odds ratio for dichotomous variables.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n \n Thirty-three papers, including 2475 patients in total, were included. The Jadad score was between 1 and 5. The incidence of hypotension was significantly higher with intrathecal bupivacaine than with ropivacaine (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.02). The duration of sensory block (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001) and motor block (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001) was prolonged with intrathecal bupivacaine. 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