Response to Hasty Conclusion About Acupuncture for Hypertension?
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Hasty conclusion about acupuncture for hypertension?
Hasty Conclusion About Acupuncture for Hypertension? To the Editor: In his editorial commentary, “Acupuncture for Hypertension,” Kaplan1 unequivocally concludes that, “acupuncture is of no value for the treatment of hypertension.” In their clinical trial, Macklin et al2 randomly assigned hypertensive subjects to 1 of 3 interventions using “individualized,” “standardized,” or “sham” acupuncture....
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000252810.36388.a4