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Record W4385166592 · doi:10.59565/001c.84477

Efficacy of GV-1 Aqua-acupuncture for Acute Diarrhea in Dogs: A Controlled, Randomized Clinical Study

2023· article· en· W4385166592 on OpenAlexaff
Christine Krenicki, Huisheng Xie

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAcupuncture Treatment Research Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineDiarrheaInternal medicineGastroenterologyAcupunctureRandomized controlled trialAcute diarrhea

Abstract

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The objective of this randomized controlled study was to determine whether integrating GV-1 aqua-acupuncture (aqua-AP) and conventional therapy can accelerate the resolution of acute diarrhea in dogs. A total of 39 client-owned dogs experiencing acute diarrhea of less than 5 days duration were enrolled and randomly assigned to Group A, conventionally treated control (no aqua-AP); Group B, conventionally treated control plus sham aqua-AP (subcutaneous injection of vitamin B12 at a non-acupuncture point); or Group C, conventionally treated plus aqua-AP at GV-1 (vitamin B12 injected at GV-1 acupuncture point). Conventional treatment, uniformly applied to all patients, consisted of a bland diet, metronidazole and probiotics. Each owner, blinded to the group assignment of their dog, reported the time duration from the start of the treatment to the first observed normal stool (denoted as Tns). Study results revealed a significant difference among the Tns values of the 3 study groups. The mean±SD Tns in Group A was 68.0±59.5 hours and 59.5±41.6 hours in Group B. Group C was 22.6±28.6 hours, which was more than 50% shorter than each of the other 2 groups. Furthermore, the proportion of subjects in Group C, whose first stool after treatment initiation was normal, was significantly greater than the other groups (A: 7.7%; B: 7.7%, and C 46.2%; p = 0.029). These findings suggest that aqua-AP at GV-1 can be an effective integrated treatment with conventional therapy for resolving acute diarrhea in dogs. Further studies with a larger sample size, and comparisons with other conventional treatments are warranted.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.295
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.081
GPT teacher head0.448
Teacher spread0.368 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2023
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