Combination of Acupoints in Treating Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis
Joint Authors
Tzeng, I-Shiang
Hsieh, Po-Chun
Kuo, Chan-Yen
Cheng, Chu-Fang
Wu, Chih-Wei
Hsu, Pei-Shan
Lee, Chang-Ti
Yu, Min-Chien
Lan, Chou-Chin
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-05-20
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is highly prevalent and a major burden on the healthcare system worldwide.
It has a severe impact on patients due to poor health-related quality of life (HRQL), dyspnea, and exertional intolerance.
Our previous meta-analysis revealed that body acupuncture therapy had adjuvant benefits of improving HRQL in COPD patients undergoing optimal medical treatment.
Previous studies indicated that treatment with combinations of acupoints was more effective than single acupoint treatment.
The association rule analysis has been widely used to explore relationships in acupoint combination.
Therefore, we aimed to investigate the potential core acupoint combination in COPD treatment by mining the association rules from the retrieved randomized control trials (RCTs) of the previous meta-analyses.
This study was conducted based on Apriori algorithm-based association rule analysis, which is a popular data mining method available in software R.
We extracted acupoints as binary data from the 12 included RCTs for analysis.
There were 27 acupoints extracted from 12 RCTs.
The top 10 frequently selected acupoints were BL12, BL13, BL20, BL23, BL43, CV17, EXB1, LU5, LU7, and ST36.
We investigated 2444 association rules, and the results showed that {ST36, BL12} ≥ {CV17}, {ST36, BL12} ≥ {EXB1}, {CV17, BL12} ≥ {ST36}, and {EXB1, BL12} ≥ {ST36} were the most associated rules in the retrieved RCTs.
The acupoint combinations of ST36, BL12, and CV17 and ST36, BL12, and EXB1 could be considered as the core of acupoint combination for further acupuncture treatment of COPD.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hsieh, Po-Chun& Cheng, Chu-Fang& Wu, Chih-Wei& Tzeng, I-Shiang& Kuo, Chan-Yen& Hsu, Pei-Shan…[et al.]. 2020. Combination of Acupoints in Treating Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157431
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hsieh, Po-Chun…[et al.]. Combination of Acupoints in Treating Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157431
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hsieh, Po-Chun& Cheng, Chu-Fang& Wu, Chih-Wei& Tzeng, I-Shiang& Kuo, Chan-Yen& Hsu, Pei-Shan…[et al.]. Combination of Acupoints in Treating Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157431
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1157431