Liang.

Trial name or title	Effect of Acupuncture on Patients with Mild Hypertension (EAPMH).
Methods	Large scale, open label, multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial.
Participants	Adults with mild essential hypertension; estimated enrolment: 428.
Interventions	2 acupuncture arms, 1 sham acupuncture arm, and 1 waiting list arm.
Outcomes	Primary outcome: mean systolic and average diastolic blood pressure by 24‐hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Secondary outcomes: mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure during the daytime and night‐time; changes in health‐related quality of life; expectation of treatment; adverse events.
Starting date	July 2012.
Contact information	Liang FR, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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