PMC:6927068 / 28316-29832 JSONTXT

{"project":"testtesttest","denotations":[{"id":"T137","span":{"begin":84,"end":89},"obj":"Body_part"},{"id":"T138","span":{"begin":119,"end":124},"obj":"Body_part"},{"id":"T139","span":{"begin":265,"end":270},"obj":"Body_part"},{"id":"T140","span":{"begin":495,"end":502},"obj":"Body_part"},{"id":"T141","span":{"begin":515,"end":524},"obj":"Body_part"},{"id":"T142","span":{"begin":1053,"end":1057},"obj":"Body_part"}],"attributes":[{"id":"A137","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T137","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000178"},{"id":"A138","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T138","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000178"},{"id":"A139","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T139","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000178"},{"id":"A140","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T140","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001757"},{"id":"A141","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T141","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001595"},{"id":"A142","pred":"uberon_id","subj":"T142","obj":"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007358"}],"text":"Implications for practice\nAuricular therapy might significantly lower both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) values compared both with sham acupoint and with no intervention, but it is unclear whether this therapy could further lower blood pressure (BP) when compared with antihypertensive drugs (ADs).\nAuricular therapy combined with ADs may be provided as a kind of alternative therapy to patients with hypertension for achieving BP targets.\nBloodletting in the auricle, one of the auricular therapy forms, might have an immediate effect of reducing BP value, while safety issues pertaining to this therapy should be stressed and monitored during the intervention period.\nAuthor contributions: JLG and GC contributed equally to this work and would like to be recognized as co-primary authors. JLG, GC, and JW conceived and designed this study; JLG, GC, HQH, and CL performed this study; HQH, CL, QYH, and JL contributed resources to facilitate the analyses in this study; JLG and GC wrote this article. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.\nDeclaration of conflicting interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.\nFunding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Innovative Funding for PhD candidates at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (no. 2016CX003).\nSupplemental material: Supplemental material for this article is available online."}