Electroacupuncture for Moderate and Severe Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Yang Wang, Baoyan Liu, Jinna Yu, Jiani Wu, Jing Wang and Zhishun Liu

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-6

Abstract: Purpose: To evaluate the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), postvoid residual urine (PVR), and maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), and explore the difference between EA at acupoints and non-acupoints in patients with moderate to severe benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Subjects and Methods: Men with BPH and IPSS ≥8 were enrolled. Participants were randomly allocated to receive EA at acupoint (treatment group, n = 50) and EA at non-acupoint (control group, n = 50). The primary outcome measure includes the change of IPSS at the 6th week and the secondary outcome measures include changes of PVR and Qmax at the 6th week and change of IPSS at the 18th week. Results: 100/192 patients were included. At the 6th week, treatment group patients had a 4.51 (p

Date: 2013
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