Trial reportMenopause (New York, N.Y.)2017
Trajectories of response to acupuncture for menopausal vasomotor symptoms: the Acupuncture in Menopause study.
Trial report in Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effect of different acupuncture modalities on sex hormone levels in perimenopausal women: a network meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- Factors associated with a clinically relevant reduction in menopausal symptoms of a standardized acupuncture approach for women with bothersome menopausal symptoms.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2021Trial
- Management of vasomotor symptoms in cancer patients.The oncologist · 2025Review
- Comparison of Climacteric Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Self-Care Attitudes before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of menopausal medicine · 2022Article
- Overcoming Barriers for Clinical Research of Acupuncture.Medical acupuncture · 2020Review
- Electroacupuncture versus Sham Acupuncture for Perimenopausal Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Nature and science of sleep · 2020Article
- Effect of acupuncture on insomnia in menopausal women: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2019Article
- Acupuncture for Hot Flashes in Cancer Patients: Clinical Characteristics and Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis as Predictors of Treatment Response.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
- Association Between Acupoint Selection, Target Symptoms, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis in Real-Time Clinical Practice in a Comprehensive Cancer Center.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the trajectories of responses to acupuncture treatment for menopausal vasomotor symptoms (VMS) and the characteristics of women in each trajectory.
methodsTwo hundred nine perimenopausal and postmenopausal women aged 45 to 60 years experiencing at least four VMS per day were recruited and randomized to receive up to 20 acupuncture treatments within 6 months or to a waitlist control group. The primary outcome was percent change from baseline in the mean daily VMS frequency. Finite mixture modeling was used to identify patterns of percent change in weekly VMS frequencies over the first 8 weeks. The Freeman-Holton test and analysis of variance were used to compare characteristics of women in different trajectories.
resultsAnalyses revealed four distinct trajectories of change in VMS frequency by week 8 in the acupuncture group. A small group of women (11.6%, n = 19) had an 85% reduction in VMS. The largest group (47%, n = 79) reported a 47% reduction in VMS frequency, 37.3% (n = 65) of the sample showed only a 9.6% reduction in VMS frequency, and a very small group (4.1%, n = 7) had a 100% increase in VMS. Among women in the waitlist control group, 79.5% reported a 10% decrease in VMS frequency at week 8. Baseline number of VMS, number of acupuncture treatments in the first 8 weeks, and traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis were significantly related to trajectory group membership in the acupuncture group.
conclusionsApproximately half of the treated sample reported a decline in VMS frequency, but identifying clear predictors of clinical response to acupuncture treatment of menopausal VMS remains challenging.
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