Acupuncture in Patients With Stable Angina Pectoris

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This trail aims to evaluate the efficacy of acupoints on the specific meridian for chronic stable angina pectoris, compared with acupoints on the other meridian, sham acupoints and waiting-list. And to confirm the specificity of acupoints on meridian.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Collaborator: Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1.Meet the diagnostic criteria of ACC/AHA angina pectoris of coronary heart disease.

2.35 ≤ age ≤ 80 years of age, both male and female.

3.The onset of angina pectoris≥3 months, and the frequency of angina attack≥2 a week.

4.Patients signed the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. age≤35 or age≥80

2. Pregnant women or women in lactation or women of child bearing potential plan to conceive in the recent six months.

3. Combined with cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, urinary, blood, nervous, endocrine system, severe primary disease clinical failed to effectively control the disease.

4. Complicated with mental disorders.

5. allergic constitution or bleeding disorder.

6. Patients accompany with acute coronary syndrome (including acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina), severe arrhythmias ( severe atrioventricular block, ventricular tachycardia, heartbeat influence the flow dynamics in supraventricular tachycardia, heartbeat frequent premature beats especially premature ventricular contractions ), atrial fibrillation, primary cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease.

7. The blood pressure and blood glucose fail to meet the treatment targets.

8. Cardiovascular disease who had been treated with acupuncture during the previous three months.

9. Currently participating in other clinical trials.