[Retracted] Acupuncture Combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Drug Therapy for the Treatment of Cerebral Infarction (Phlegm-Blood Stasis Syndrome) and Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the included cases ().

Variable	Control group ()	Treatment group ()	value
Gender
Male ( (%))	15 (50%)	15 (50%)	>0.9999
Female ( (%))	15 (50%)	15 (50%)
Age (y)			0.8442
Hypertension history
Present ( (%))	25 (83.3%)	23 (76.7%)
Absent ( (%))	5 (16.7%)	7 (23.3%)	0.5267
Diabetes history
Present ( (%))	8 (26.7%)	10 (33.3%)	0.5807
Absent ( (%))	22 (73.3%)	20 (66.7%)
Disease course (d)			0.7056
Lp-PLA2			0.1854