Acupuncture effects on heart failure: How to create objective study designs
| Autor: | Tobias Greten, A. Kick, Wendt, Andrew Remppis, Frank Brazkiewicz, E. Scholz, Serkan Sertel, Henry Johannes Greten, F. Schröder, Mário Gonçalves, O. Karrer, Joachim E. Fischer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Clinical study design Repeated measures design Acupuncture treatment medicine.disease law.invention 6 min walk Clinical trial Complementary and alternative medicine Randomized controlled trial law Heart failure medicine Acupuncture Physical therapy business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science. 6:307-308 |
| ISSN: | 1993-0399 1672-3597 |
| Popis: | According to a modern understanding of acupuncture mechanisms, acupuncture may elicit vegetative reflexes, presumably influencing the systemwide vegetative dysregulation associated with the heart failure syndrome, a feature of which is low performance in the 6 min walk test. The author performed a preliminary prospective, randomized, single-blinded clinical trial (n=21) in a cross-over design comparing acupuncture treatment, which was either compatible with individual Chinese diagnosis according to the Heidelberg Model of TCM (i-ACU) or a standardized treatment on acupoints with no specific relation to TCM diagnosis (u-ACU). The repeated measures analysis revealed a significant effect for i-ACU vs. u-ACU (F =7.2, df =1.37, P=0.011). The study revealed first evidence that acupuncture may prolong 6 min walk distance as a key parameter of heart failure. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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