Effects of acupuncture on hemorheology, blood lipid content and nail fold microcirculation in multiple infarct dementia patients.
3 Small study in people
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- Type of study
- controlled trial
- Studied in
- people
- Participants
- not stated in the abstract
- Published
- 2004 in Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan
- Cited
- 8 times by other research
- Who paid
- Not declared. PubMed carries no conflict-of-interest statement for most articles; that is not the same as independent.
- Source
- PubMed 15510807
The plain-language write-up of this study is still being written.
Below is the abstract exactly as the researchers published it.
Abstract by the researchers — original text
Forty-six cases of multiple infarct dementia (MID) in the treatment group were treated by acupuncture with the principle of supplementing the inferiority to clear the superiority and regulating spirit to invigorate intelligence. Changes of the blood lipid content, hemorheological indexes and nail fold microcirculation in the treatment group were compared with those in the randomly assigned control group. The data collected showed that the changes in the treatment group were remarkable, and part of them were superior to their counterparts obtained in the control group by statistical analysis. It is indicated that acupuncture can effectively regulate the affected hemodynamic state in MID.