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A Trial of Personalized Acupuncture, Fixed Acupuncture, Letrozole and Placebo on Live Birth in Women With PCOS

NCT03625531 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1103

Last updated 2026-04-14

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Summary

This study is a randomized assessor-blind controlled trial. A total of 1,103 women with PCOS will be recruited from 20 hospitals and randomly allocated into four groups: personalized acupuncture, fixed acupuncture, letrozole or placebo letrozole. Patients will receive treatment for 16 weeks and the primary outcome is live birth.

Conditions

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

Women in both personalized and fixed acupuncture groups will receive acupuncture treatment three times a week. Acupuncture treatment will start on day 3 after a spontaneous period or after a withdrawal bleeding following progestin. Each treatment session will last for 30-60 minutes, with a maximum of 48 treatment sessions over 16 weeks. If they become pregnant, the acupuncture treatment will be stopped. For personalized and fixed acupuncture group, credibility and expectancy questionnaires will be completed on the third acupuncture treatment and the last acupuncture treatment.

DRUG

Letrozole

Letrozole will be started on day 3 to day 7 of the spontaneous period or a withdrawal bleeding following progestin. If there is response with ovulation, this dose will be maintained. In those with no ovulatory response, letrozole tablets of the next ovulation cycle will be take on the day 28 of the menstrual cycle and the letrozole dose will be increased to 5 mg (2 pills) a day for 5 days. If there is still no response, the dose will be increased to 7.5 mg per day for 5 days in the next cycle. The maximum daily dose of letrozole will be 7.5 mg (3 pills) daily for five days.

DRUG

Placebo letrozole

Placebo letrozole will be given in the same way as letrozole. Women will receive 1 tablet a day of placebo letrozole from the day 3 to day 7 of the menstrual cycle and placebo letrozole dose will be increased 2 tablets a day in the next cycle if there is no response. The maximum daily dose of placebo letrozole will be 3 tablets daily for five days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hongxia Ma

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hongxia HX Ma, Dorctor · The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-13
Primary Completion
2025-01-22
Completion
2025-01-22

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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