Acupuncture for menopausal hot flushes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Dodin, Sylvie ^a   Blanchet, Claudine ^a   Marc, Isabelle ^b   Ernst, Edzard ^c   Wu, Taixiang ^d   Vaillancourt, Caroline ^a   Paquette, Joalee ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; BURN; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISURE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MOXIBUSTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN BRUISING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; HOT FLASHES;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84891644857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007410.pub2     Document Type: Review

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