Acupuncture in Arterial Hypertension: Evaluation of its Efficacy with Both Office and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A possible alternative to pharmacological antihypertensive therapies in grade 1 low risk hypertensive patients or in those experienced drugs adverse effects could be acupuncture.

Aim

we focused on its possible effects on BP both as Office BP (OBP) and as Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM) evaluating it before starting a 6 weeks twice weekly (total 12 session) acupuncture cycle and after 2 months from its completion.

Methods

in this prospective study we treated with acupuncture 45 patients: 24 of them presents high-normal BP values and low cardiovascular risk while 21 patients were on anti-hypertensive drug with slightly uncontrolled BP values (from 140 to 145 mmHg for Systolic BP-SBP-and/or from 90 to 95 mmHg for Diastolic BP-DBP).

Results

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SUBMITTER: Migliarese C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537129 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature