Menopause : The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 638/645
DOI : 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820159c1
* 2011 by The North American Menopause Society
The relationship of subjective sleep quality and cardiac autonomic nervous system in postmenopausal women with insomnia under auricular acupressure
Yen-Ying Kung, MD,1,2 Cheryl C.H. Yang, PhD,3,4 Jen-Hwey Chiu, MD, PhD,1,2,5
and Terry B.J. Kuo, MD, PhD1,3,4

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21326120/

Conclusions : This study suggests that AA intervention leads to more cardiac parasympathetic and less cardiac
sympathetic activity, which contributes to the improvement of PI.

Study procedure
All participants received a subjective sleep quality questionnaire
and HRV measurements before the AA treatment. The
baseline HRV measurement was a precordial electrocardiogram
(ECG) taken for 5 minutes while the participant was
lying quietly and breathing normally at 9 to 11 A.M. After the
HRV measurement was taken ; the participants received the AA
treatment, which used a 0.2-cm-sized magnetic pellet on a 1-cmsized
sticky patch (Ching-Ming Co, Taiwan), which was placed
bilaterally on five auricular points (Shenmen, kidney, heart,
brainstem, and subcortex)

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