Acupuncture improves sleep in postmenopause in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Climacteric

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-40

  Hachul, H ^a,b   Garcia, T K P ^a   MacIel, A L ^a   Yagihara, F ^a   Tufik, S ^a   Bittencourt, L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Casa de Saúde Santa Marcelina CSSM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Insomnia; Postmenopause; Sleep; Sleep Disturbance

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; ANTHROPOMETRY; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DSM-IV; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP QUALITY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84872448465     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13697137.2012.698432     Document Type: Article

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