Moxibustion for declined cardiorespiratory fitness of apparently healthy older adults: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

• Zheng Sun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ZS and ZX contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-530X

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• Zhihong Xu ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ZS and ZX contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliation Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Kuang Yu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Haitian Sun,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Yiren Lin,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Zilong Zhu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Yimin Zhu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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• Jianbin Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangjianbin@njucm.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

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