Brain-Gut Axis Modulation of Acupuncture in Functional Dyspepsia: A Preliminary Resting-State fcMRI Study

Table 2

Objective measurements in patients with functional dyspepsia and healthy adults.

Items	A: baseline ()	B: after treatment ()	C: healthy adults ()	values
				A versus B	A versus C	B versus C
Gastrin (pg/ml)	25.93 ± 5.90	44.4 ± 6.26	47.65 ± 20.21	0.0002	0.0081	0.6401
FGSW (n/min)	2.49 ± 0.64	3.11 ± 0.14	3.11 ± 0.13	0.0078	0.0008	1.0000
PVGSW (s)	24.25 ± 4.95	19.75 ± 2.05	19.41 ± 0.93	0.0180	0.0279	0.6713

FGSW: frequency of gastric slow wave; PVGSW: propagation velocity of gastric slow wave.
Note: propagation velocity of gastric slow wave was assessed by the time interval between two consecutive waves that passed through the gastric antrum.