Research on effectiveness of acupuncture on treating chronic stable Angina.
Holter heart monitor used to help detect heart problems like Angina.
In this meta analysis of 16 different research papers they compared acupuncture to placebo and standard care. Acupuncture significantly reduced angina attacks and depression survey scores without increasing adverse events. For you practitioners out there , not surprisingly they found that HT 5 and PC 6 had a particularly good effect. To get into the weeds, this is an interesting paper and highlights the difficulty in taking clinically relevant information from research because of the way the studies were preformed and designed plus that in TCM each patient would have a slightly different diagnosis even though they all had chronic stable Angina.