ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2022
Acupuncture Treatment is Associated with Reduced Dementia Risk in Patients with Migraine: A Propensity-Score-Matched Cohort Study of Real-World Data.
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- Migraines and the association of cognitive impairment: a one- and two-sample mendelian randomization analysis.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Reducing Parkinson's disease incidence in patients with insomnia through acupuncture: A cohort study.Integrative medicine research · 2024Article
- Research hotspots and trends on acupuncture treatment for headache: a bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2023.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches in Alzheimer Disease and Other Neurocognitive Disorders.Missouri medicineReview
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Abstract
Background: Migraine is a recurrent headache disease that has been identified as a risk factor for subsequent dementia. The present study collected data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) to investigate the incidence of dementia in patients with migraine who did or did not concurrently receive acupuncture treatment. Methods: A 1:1 propensity score method was used to match an equal number of patients (N = 4813) in the acupuncture and nonacupuncture cohorts based on sex, age, migraine diagnosis year, index year, insurance amount, urbanization level, baseline comorbidities, and medication usage. We employed Cox proportional hazards models to evaluate the risk of dementia. Results: Patients with migraine who received acupuncture treatment were found to have a lower risk of dementia (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.40-0.65) than those who did not undergo acupuncture treatment. The cumulative incidence of dementia was significantly lower in the acupuncture cohort than in the nonacupuncture cohort (Log rank test, Conclusion: The results suggest that acupuncture treatment significantly reduced the development of dementia in patients with migraine.
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