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Acupuncture versus Metoprolol for Migraine (N=114)

Acupuncture versus Metoprolol for Migraine (N=114) AIM December 2006 Text.qxd 17/01/2007 11:12 Page 188 Research shorts Research shorts This section is designed to give brief synopses of a selection of recent research papers published in Medline listed journals. Abstracts are all available online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi/ Acupuncture for migraine (n=960) Note also that the responder rate for acupuncture in this trial (47%) was measured at 26 weeks following Diener HC, Kronfeld K, Boewing G, Lungenhausen a 6 week course of treatment, and that this is M, Maier C, Molsberger A et al. Efficacy of compared with 24 weeks of continuous drug acupuncture for the prophylaxis of migraine: a treatment (40% responder rate). The responder rate multicentre randomised controlled clinical trial. for minimal acupuncture was 39% in this trial. Lancet Neurol 2006;5(4):310-6. Mike Cummings This is the report of the GERAC Migraine trial, which compared acupuncture with minimal acupuncture and standard medication in a three arm parallel RCT. GERAC stands for German Acupuncture Trials, and was one of the three large Acupuncture versus metoprolol for migraine programmes of research that made up the (n=114) Modellvorhaben (trial phases) of the German health insurance companies. Streng A, Linde K, Hoppe A, Pfaffenrath V, Hammes Rather similar to the results http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Acupuncture versus Metoprolol for Migraine (N=114)

Cummings, Mike
Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 24 (4): 2 – Dec 1, 2006
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AIM December 2006 Text.qxd 17/01/2007 11:12 Page 188 Research shorts Research shorts This section is designed to give brief synopses of a selection of recent research papers published in Medline listed journals. Abstracts are all available online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi/ Acupuncture for migraine (n=960) Note also that the responder rate for acupuncture in this trial (47%) was measured at 26 weeks following Diener HC, Kronfeld K, Boewing G, Lungenhausen a 6 week course of treatment, and that this is M, Maier C, Molsberger A et al. Efficacy of compared with 24 weeks of continuous drug acupuncture for the prophylaxis of migraine: a treatment (40% responder rate). The responder rate multicentre randomised controlled clinical trial. for minimal acupuncture was 39% in this trial. Lancet Neurol 2006;5(4):310-6. Mike Cummings This is the report of the GERAC Migraine trial, which compared acupuncture with minimal acupuncture and standard medication in a three arm parallel RCT. GERAC stands for German Acupuncture Trials, and was one of the three large Acupuncture versus metoprolol for migraine programmes of research that made up the (n=114) Modellvorhaben (trial phases) of the German health insurance companies. Streng A, Linde K, Hoppe A, Pfaffenrath V, Hammes Rather similar to the results

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