Korean Red Ginseng Improves Blood Pressure Stability in Patients with Intradialytic Hypotension

Figure 2

Comparison of the frequency of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) with and without Korean red ginseng (KRG) treatment. Phase I is the control phase (grey boxes). Phase II is the KRG treatment phase (white boxes). The number of sessions disturbed by symptomatic IDH reduced significantly after KRG treatment in both group A (hypertensive at baseline, 𝑛=18, 𝑃=0.016) and group B (normotensive or hypotensive at baseline, 𝑛=20, 𝑃=0.035). Data are shown as box and whisker plots. Horizontal lines represent median values. The boxes encompass the first and 3rd quartile of the included data. The bars give the 95% confidence interval of the values. ^∗𝑃<0.05.