1Center for Drug Clinical Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
2Zhengzhou University Cancer Hospital and Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Address correspondence to: Dr. Lujin Li, PhD, No. 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China. E-mail: [email protected], Prof. Qingshan Zheng, PhD, No. 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 12 October, 2020
Revised 18 January, 2021
Accepted 18 January, 2021
This paper has been published on Research Square (a preprint server), the published title is “Quantitative study on the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of menopausal hot flashes and its comparison with non-hormonal drugs,” and the DOI is 10.21203/rs.3.rs-90756/v1.
This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
Funding/support: This was not an industry supported study. This work was received financial support from National Major S&T Project (2018ZX09734005, 2018ZX09711001-009-011, 2018ZX09731016, 2017ZX09304003, and 2018ZX10303501), the project of Shanghai Municipal Health Planning Commission (2018YQ48), and Shanghai S&T Innovation Plan (17401970900).
Financial disclosures/conflicts of interest: None reported.
L.L. and Q.Z. participated in conception and design of the work and revised the paper critically for important intellectual content. T.L. and Y.Z. selected studies and extracted the data, analyzed and interpreted the data. T.L. and Q.C. wrote the manuscript and revised the manuscript. M.H. and X.Z. contributed to data extraction and cleaning. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. All authors have approved the final article.
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