Acupuncture treatment for Hashimoto's thyroiditis: An exploratory randomized controlled trial.

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"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that there are no known financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"Funding Project funded by the Postdoctoral research project of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (10819), the Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Dongzhimen Hospital in 2020 (DZMKJCX-2020-019), and Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation Exploration Project Q (LQ20H270012). The funding body had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."

"Trial registration number This trial was registered at Acupuncture-Moxibustion Clinical Trial Registry: AMCTR-IOR-19000308 (ChiCTR1900026830, https://www.chictr.org.cn/searchprojEN.html)."