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In recent years,acupuncture has been applied to treat more and more patients suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).On June 27,2017 a paper titled “Effect of acupuncture and clomiphene in Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome:a randomized
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Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700,
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In recent years,acupuncture has been applied to treat more and more patients suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).On June 27,2017 a paper titled “Effect of acupuncture and clomiphene in Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome:a randomized clinical trial” was published in Joumal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).The results did not support acupuncture as an effective therapy for improving the live births in PCOS.The aim of this article was to analyze the therapeutic regimen and design of the clinical trial.The primary outcome and the conclusion of the paper were discussed as well.There are 5 doubts in the paper.(1)The therapeutic regimen decided by trigger points in the paper was different from that of the traditional Chinese acupuncture.(2) The live birth as the primary outcome was limited during the PCOS recovery.(3) In addition the period of the treatment was too short to reflect the therapeutic effect.(4) Although there was no significant difference between active acupuncture and control acupuncture,the conclusion that acupuncture was not effective for PCOS was not confirmed because the control acupuncture plus clomiphene was also more effective than that of clomiphene alone.(5) The proposal and the statistics were not in accordance with the one planned before.Therefore the result was worth to be discussed so as to provide some suggestions and references for improving the clinical research of acupuncture.
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