Acupuncture for Functional Dyspepsia: A Single Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial

Table 5

Comparisons of serum gastrin concentration and frequency and propagation velocity of gastric slow waves before and after treatment as well as between patients with functional dyspepsia and healthy adults.

Items	Baseline versus healthy adults	Baseline versus after treatment	After treatment versus healthy adults
Gastrin	0.0081	0.0002	0.6401
FGSW	0.0008	0.0078	1.0000
PVGSW	0.0279	0.0180	0.6713

FGSW: frequency of gastric slow waves; PVGSW: propagation velocity of gastric slow waves.
Note: propagation velocity of gastric slow waves was assessed by the time interval between two consecutive waves that passed through the gastric antrum. “Baseline versus after treatment” refers to patients with functional dyspepsia only.