OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness, safety and compliance of heat-sensitive moxibustion self-management in community patients with essential hypertension.
✦ The floor
Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
No actionable change for audiologists — this RCT on moxibustion for hypertension has no relevance to audiology clinical practice.
This study has no meaningful relevance to the audiology field; it appears to have been misrouted to an audiology content pipeline.
- 01RCT of 120 community patients evaluated self-managed heat-sensitive moxibustion for essential hypertension.
- 02Outcomes measured included effectiveness, safety, and patient compliance.
- 03Study is grounded in traditional Chinese medicine, not audiology or hearing science.
- 04No hearing-related outcomes or audiological measures were included.
- 05Results are irrelevant to hearing care practice or hearing loss management.
Heat-sensitive moxibustion self-management is effective for community patients with essential hypertension.
studyunclearHeat-sensitive moxibustion self-management is safe for community patients with essential hypertension.
studyunclear- PMID
- 42779403
- DOI
- 10.13702/j.1000-0607.20250751.
- Journal
- Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 1b
- Sample size
- 120
- Population
- 120 community patients with essential hypertension
- Intervention
- Heat-sensitive moxibustion self-management
- Comparator
- Control group (nature unspecified in description)
Primary outcomes
Effectiveness of moxibustion on blood pressure; Safety of self-administered moxibustion; Patient compliance with self-management protocol