Yingne bilen dawalashning yuquri qan bisimigha kop shipasi yoq

Towendiki xewerge asaslanghanda tetqiqatchilar yuquri qan bisimigha
giriptar bolghan bimarlarni junguning enenewi yingne bilen dawalash
usuli arqiliq dawalash ilip barghan bolsimu, biraq alahide unumge
irishelmigen.

Acupuncture not much help for high blood pressure

Reuters Health

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Standardized or individualized
traditional Chinese acupuncture is no better than a sham procedure
in reducing blood pressure in people with hypertension, according to
a new report.

Findings from small clinical trials and studies of individual cases
have suggested a benefit for acupuncture in treating hypertension,
Dr. Eric A. Macklin and colleagues note in the medical journal
Hypertension. However, until now, no data from large trials have
been reported.

The Stop Hypertension with the Acupuncture Research Program --
dubbed SHARP -- involved 192 subjects with untreated high blood
pressure, which averaged about 149/93.
Macklin, from the New England Research Institutes in Watertown,
Massachusetts, and his team randomly assigned the participants to
undergo standardized acupuncture at preselected points,
individualized traditional Chinese acupuncture, or sham acupuncture -
- that is, needle puncture at non-acupuncture sites.

The subjects underwent up to 12 sessions over 6 to 8 weeks, and
their blood pressure was monitored every 2 weeks for 10 weeks.

The average drop in blood pressure from baseline to 10 weeks was
similar in each group, with a decline of around 3 points in the
upper and lower readings -- not enough to make much difference.

The researchers were unable to find any patient subgroups, based on
age, race, gender, baseline blood pressure, or other factors, for
which active acupuncture was more effective than sham acupuncture at
reducing blood pressure.

"The money and effort expended in this trial should save even more
wasted money and ineffectual effort," Dr. Norman M. Kaplan, from the
University of Texas at Dallas, comments in a related editorial --
but he doesn't seem hopeful. "Acupuncture is receiving a number of
proofs of inadequacy, but it may turn out that science cannot trump
2500 years of Asian tradition," Kaplan writes.

SOURCE: Hypertension, November 2006.