Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:56 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:56 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00284492
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Postmenopausal women (at least one year past the last menstrual period) who are willing to receive acupuncture and who during two weeks of self-completed diaries10 document a mean value of 7 flushes/24 hours or more (or 50 flushes or more over a period of seven consecutive days), will be randomized after a baseline evaluation.
* Current users prescribed medications that influence hot flush rate (e. g. HRT, SSRI's) can be included after a washout period. The washout-periods are eight weeks for SSRI's and systemic (including transdermal) HRT and four weeks for local estradiol preparations
Exclusion Criteria:
* Surgical menopause
* History of cancer within the past five years
* Use of anticoagulant drugs
* Heart valve disease
* Poorly controlled hypertension
* Hypothyroidism
* Hyperthyroidism or diabetes mellitus
* Organ transplant
* Mental disease
* Overt drug or alcohol dependency
* Inability to complete study forms
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
FEMALE
Minimum Age:
40 Years
Maximum Age:
80 Years
Study:
NCT00284492
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00284492