title: Acupoint massage nursing conducive to improve curative effect of the obesity patients who are complicated with hypertension and are treated by oral drugs.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  observe the curative effect of the simple obesity patients who are complicated with hypertension and are treated by oral drugs under the adjuvant treatment of acupoint massage nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  a total of 42 patients, who suffer from simple obesity but are complicated with mild to moderate hypertension, are selected and then randomly divided into an observation group and a control group by the digital table method. Each group consists of 21 patients. The patients in the control group are treated by the normal oral drugs, while those in the observation group are intervened by acupoint massage except the normal oral drug treatment provided for the control group. Respectively test the body fat percentage content, blood fat and blood pressure indicators of the selected patients in the two groups before treatment and after 12 weeks' treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  after 12 weeks' treatment, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and blood fat indicators of the patients in the control group are improved significantly compared with those before treatment, P < 0.05, but their percentage of body fat does not change significantly, P > 0.05; systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, blood fat and body fat percentage of the patients in the observation group are significantly improved compared with those before treatment and their improvement effect is better than that of the control group, P < 0.05. Moreover, the relapse rate of the patients in the observation group, who have been cured, is also obviously lower than that of the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  as for the simple obesity patients who are complicated with hypertension, if they accept acupoint massage stimulation therapy, assisted with oral drugs for treatment, their curative effect is obviously superior to that of the single drug treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine-cardiovascular, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine-cardiovascular, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Zheng-Ming
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiration and Intensive, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
authors.forename: Ai-Guo
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Xu
keywords: Acupoint massage; combination; curative effect; drug; hypertension; physical therapy