Reviews on RCT Design Characteristic of Primary Hypertension Treatment with Acupuncture Abroad
10.11842/wst.2014.01.001
- VernacularTitle:国外针灸治疗原发性高血压RCT试验设计特点分析
- Author:
Huabin ZHENG
;
Taipin GUO
;
Jing SHI
;
Hui ZHENG
;
Juan LI
;
Fanrong LIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acupuncture;
primary hypertension;
RCT;
SCI;
clinical design
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2014;(1):1-5
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Primary hypertension is one of the common chronic diseases, as well as the key disease for prevention and treatment by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The authors searched and analyzed RCTs studies on primary hyper-tension treatment with acupuncture in the PubMed. It showed that primary hypertension treatment with acupuncture abroad had high quality methodologies. However, the deficiencies of TCM theories in the treatment plan in these studies were the same as RCTs of acupuncture treatment design of other diseases. It may due to the insufficiency of TCM knowledge and culture differences of researchers aboard. Besides, the small sample amount, various interven-tions, no blank control, and the using of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure most of the time, may difficult to objec-tively evaluate the clinical effect of acupuncture. Therefore, our research team will carry out high quality RCT stud-ies under the guidance of TCM theories of meridians and syndrome differentiation to further discuss the specificity of acupoints.
