Showing posts with label Pregnancy rate. Show all posts
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Acupuncture is effective for rising pregnancy rate in IVF

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512550

The clinical pregnancy rate in the acupuncture group was significantly higher than that in the control and sham groups (35.7% vs 7.1% vs 10.7%; p=0.0169).

Acupuncture treated group-35.7%  of pregnancy rate.
Controlled group- 7.1%of pregnancy rate.
Sham acupuncture( not using acupoints, insert needle randomly)-10.7%

CONCLUSIONS:

In this study, acupuncture and moxibustion increased pregnancy rates when used as an adjuvant treatment in women undergoing IVF, when embryo implantation had failed