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Introduction: This study used a meta-analysis to investigate factors related to dizziness/vertigo and their effect size in community-dwelling elderly people.Methods: The search terms "elderly," "dizzy," "community dwelling," and others were used, and a database search was conducted using Ichushi Web and PubMed.Result: In total, 10 studies were extracted. Meta-analysis calculated 28 items as significantly related factors: anxiety, fatigue, taking nitric acid drugs, taking anxiolytics, low self-rated health, memory impairment, depression, sleep disorder, dementia, cancer, balance failure, gait disturbance, physical dysfunction, taking diuretics, living alone, heart disease, fall history, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, taking sleeping pills, taking multiple drugs, visual impairment, female, ADL impairment, osteoporosis, taking antihypertensive drugs, hypertension, and low education level.Conclusion: The above items may be key variables for investigating dizziness/vertigo in the future.
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[Objective]Through the literature retrieval in recent years, knowledge of blood pressure variability prediction and evaluation of hypertension and its complications, and prognostic judgment, review various methods on blood pressure variability changes of traditional Chinese medicine clinical research. [Method]Acupuncture for its target, overal adjustment, green therapy, which has certain advantages in the treatment of abnormal blood pressure variation, in recent years, clinical research has made a lot of useful discussion in this paper on review.[Result]Based on these clinical observations, it indicates the ef-fect of acupuncture on hypertension is significant. [Conclusion]Acupuncture in the treatment of abnormal blood pressure variation has certain advantages, should design the rigorous large sample, multicenter, randomized, blinded, end point of cardiovascular events as indicators of clinical research and the relat-ed experimental research, provide more convincing acupuncture intervention reverse abnormal blood pressure circadian rhythm of scientific basis.