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Heart Disease In The News Mass General to study acupuncture for hypertension Massachusetts General Hospital and the New England Research Institute have recieved a large grant from the National Institutes of Health to study acupuncture for the therapy of hypertension. 180 patients with high blood pressure will be asked to stop taking their antihypertensive medication. They will be assigned randomly to one of three treatment groups utilizing three different forms of acupuncture. They will receive 12 acupuncture treatments over 6 weeks, and then followed for one year. If a patient's blood pressure rises too much during the one-year follow-up, medication will be re-started. If this pilot study appears promising, a larger study will be undertaken. |
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