Acupuncture for Preventing Complications after Radical Hysterectomy: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Table 1

Baseline clinical characteristics of treatment and control groups.

	Treatment group (𝑛=60)	Control group (𝑛=60)	𝐹 value 𝜒^2	𝑃 value
Age (years)	46.5 ± 7.7	45.9 ± 8.2	0.646	0.697
Body mass index (kg/m^2)	24.3 ± 3.4	25.1 ± 3.3	0.141	0.184
Parity	1.55 ± 1.0	1.58 ± 0.96	0.11	0.853
Histological type (𝑛 (%))
Squamous cell carcinoma	49 (81.7)	48 (80)	0.054	0.817
Cervical adenocarcinoma	5 (8.3)	4 (6.7)	0.12	0.729
Endometrial cancer	4 (6.7)	5 (8.3)	0.12	0.729
Other	2 (3.3)	3 (5)	0.209	0.648
FIGO stage of cervical carcinoma (𝑛 (%))
I A2	17 (28.3)	19 (31.7)	0.159	0.69
I B1	24 (40)	21 (35)	0.32	0.572
II A1	13 (21.7)	11 (18.3)	0.208	0.648
Other	3 (5)	2 (3.3)	0.209	0.648

FIGO: the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics version 2009.