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Acupuncture as Adjunctive Therapy for Chronic Stable Angina

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: JAMA Internal Medicine

Source URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2739058

Author(s)

Ling Zhao, Dehua Li, Hui Zheng, Xiaorong Chang, Jin Cui, Ruihui Wang, Jing Shi, Hailong Fan, Ying Li, Xin Sun, Fuwen Zhang, Xi Wu, Fanrong Liang

In this trial involving over 400 patients, accupuncture was compared to two sham groups and an observation group. The intervention group experienced a nearly two-thirds reduction in the frequency of angina attacks during the 20-week treatment period, significantly better than the sham and observation groups.