Acupuncture for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled trial.
Medicine (Baltimore)
; 95(40): e4879, 2016 Oct.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27749542
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Acupuncture has been suggested to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in China. However, current evidence is insufficient to draw a firm conclusion regarding the effectiveness of acupuncture in COPD. Therefore, this multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture for treating patients with COPD.METHODS:
This is a two-arm, parallel group, multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled trial with concealed allocation, and participants, assessor, and analyst blinding. Seventy-two participants with COPD were recruited and randomly divided into 2 groups (real acupuncture group and sham acupuncture group) in a 11 ratio. Patients received either real or sham needling at the same acupoints 3 times weekly for 8 weeks. The primary outcome was dyspnea on exertion evaluated using the 6-minute walk test. In addition, health-related quality of life was also evaluated. Measurements were obtained at baseline and after 8 weeks of treatment.RESULTS:
Six-minute walking distance measurements and health-related quality of life were significantly better in the real acupuncture group than that in the sham acupuncture group.CONCLUSION:
The findings suggest that acupuncture can be used as an adjunctive therapy to reduce dyspnea in patients with COPD.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Terapia por Acupuntura
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Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Medicine (Baltimore)
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China