ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Association of Acupuncture Treatment with Mortality of Type 2 Diabetes in China: Evidence of a Real-World Study.
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- Acupuncture Safety in Diabetic Limb: A Scoping Review.Medical acupuncture · 2025Review
- Impact of family doctors on gradient utilization of health services among diabetic patients: evidence from a real-world study.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Early acupuncture intervention strongly associates with improved swallowing recovery in post-stroke dysphagia: a multicenter real-world cohort study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Effect of Gegen Qinlian Decoction on the regulation of gut microbiota and metabolites in type II diabetic rats.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Acupuncture therapy protects PCOS patients with diabetes by regulating miR-32-3p/PLA2G4A pathway.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
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Abstract
The prevalence and mortality rates of diabetes are increasing globally, posing severe challenges to health systems. Acupuncture is used worldwide as a non-drug treatment for diabetes. However, empirical evidence of the effect of combined acupuncture and drug treatments on diabetic-associated mortality is limited. This study aimed to examine this association of acupuncture treatment with mortality of type 2 diabetes based on real-world data. A four-year cohort study was conducted in Shanghai between 2015 and 2018, The database consisted of 37,718 patients (acupuncture group: 6865 type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, non-acupuncture (control) group: 30,853 T2DM patients) in 2016. The objective was to analyze the impact of receiving acupuncture prescriptions for diabetes in 2016 on all-cause mortality in 2018 based on real-world data. An Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) and Propensity Score Matching (PSM) were used to minimize the bias due to potential confounding variables to increase the reliability of differences in comparisons between the two groups. Our inverse probability weighted regression results suggest that the coefficient of the key dependent variable of accepted acupuncture in 2016 was negative (coefficient: -0.0002; 95% CI: -0.0024-0.0019,
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