Auricular Acupuncture to Lower Blood Pressure Involves the Adrenal Gland in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Table 1

Impact of auricular electroacupuncture (EA) on the change of heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) over time.

Source	HR		SBP		DBP
	F	p	F	p	F	p
Intercept	65647.822	0.0001	35775.553	0.0001	25248.255	0.0001
Treatment	75.420	0.0001	242.811	0.0001	240.786	0.0001
Times	1.207	0.258	9.267	0.0001	7.621	0.0001
Treatment  times	1.171	0.289	3.971	0.0001	4.116	0.0001

Treatment with 2 values as sham group (SG) with auricular EA at bilateral auricle helix 1 and helix 2 points) and treatment group (TG) with auricular EA at bilateral auricle heart and shenmen acupoints; times with 19 values as 9^thW: ninth week from birth; 10^thW: tenth week from birth or baseline prior to auricular EA treatment; 2–9 times: measurement of HR was before auricular EA; 1a–9a times: measurement of HR was after auricular EA; F: F value; p: p value; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; mixed models linear analysis.