TY - JOUR AU - Suzuki, Masao AU - Muro, Shigeo AU - Fukui, Motonari AU - Ishizaki, Naoto AU - Sato, Susumu AU - Shiota, Tetsuhiro AU - Endo, Kazuo AU - Suzuki, Tomoko AU - Mitsuma, Tadamichi AU - Mishima, Michiaki AU - Hirai, Toyohiro PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/24 TI - Effects of acupuncture on nutritional state of patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): re-analysis of COPD acupuncture trial, a randomized controlled trial JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 287 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - There are an increasing number of evidences that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a systemic illness and that bodyweight loss is its prominent manifestation. We focused on the nutritional outcomes to find out the effectiveness of acupuncture on nutritional state of COPD patients and on their prognosis in our previous interventional study. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2341-3 DO - 10.1186/s12906-018-2341-3 ID - Suzuki2018 ER -