What is it about?
Fibromyalgia patients have a chronic wide spread pain, and they have a higher risk of coronary heart disease than the general population. About 50% of fibromyalgia patients receive acupuncture in Taiwan. We used the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan that is . Our study shows that fibromyalgia patients who did not receive acupuncture had a twofold risk of coronary heart disease than patients who received acupuncture.
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Why is it important?
Our finding shows that acupuncture can reduce a 50% of happenings of coronary heart disease in fibromyalgia patients. Thus, fibromyalgia patients may have a better outcome after they receive acupuncture.
Perspectives
I hope that this article can help more fibromyalgia patients.
Mei-Yao Wu
China Medical University
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This page is a summary of: Acupuncture decreased the risk of coronary heart disease in patients with fibromyalgia in Taiwan: a nationwide matched cohort study, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-017-1239-7.
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