ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
Effect of Depth of Electroacupuncture on the IPSS of Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Complementary therapies in the control of male lower urinary tract symptoms: A systematic review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Pooled it
- The Efficacy of Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors for the Male Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of men's healthPooled it
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- Effectiveness of acupuncture for nocturia: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) on Ciliao (BL 32) and Zhongliao (BL 33) acupoints at different depths for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) through a single-blind randomized controlled trial. All 120 patients diagnosed with BPH were randomly allocated to an experimental group (deep insertion group, DI group,
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