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Efficacy of Electro-acupuncture for Abdominal Obesity: Study for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Obesity, Abdominal Clinical Trial

Official title:
The Efficacy and Safety of Electro-acupuncture for Abdominal Obesity: Original Study for a Multicenter, Randomized, Sham-controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Summary

Electro-acupuncture provides stimulation to acupoints, and has been widely used to treat abdominal obesity in China despite of lack of high-level evidence for treatment efficacy. The study will investigate whether the electroacupuncture can alleviate clinical symptoms and the mechanism of action in patients with abdominal obesity.

Clinical Trial Description

The study will be a randomized controlled trial from May 2021 to December 2022, including 68 participants with abdominal obesity. The participants will be randomly divided into 2 groups in a 1:1 allocation ratio.The intervention group will receive electroacupuncture; the control group will receive sham acupuncture. Each treatment will last 12 weeks, including 8 weeks of intervention period and 24 weeks of follow-up. The primary outcome is the waist circumference (WC), the secondary outcomes include weight, body mass index (BMI), hipline, waist-hip-ratio (WHR), Insulin resistance index (IRI), blood fat, metabolomics will be used analysis the mechanism. The adverse events will be recorded during the intervention and follow-up period. ;

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT04957134
Study type Interventional
Source Hubei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date July 22, 2021
Completion date March 15, 2023
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