Acupuncture decreased the risk of stroke among patients with fibromyalgia in Taiwan: A nationwide matched cohort study

• Ming-Cheng Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, Graduate Institute of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hung-Rong Yen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan, Chinese Medicine Research Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-1658

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• Cheng-Li Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Management Office of Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yu-Chen Lee,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Mao-Feng Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mao-Feng Sun, Mei-Yao Wu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: meiyaowu0919@gmail.com (MYW); maofeng@mail.cmuh.org.tw (MFS)

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Mei-Yao Wu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mao-Feng Sun, Mei-Yao Wu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: meiyaowu0919@gmail.com (MYW); maofeng@mail.cmuh.org.tw (MFS)

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Post-Baccalaureate Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-0757

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