A Clinical Trial of Acupoint Thread-embedding Therapy for Simple Obesity
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Weight Loss
- Sponsor
- Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- The change Body Weight
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Thread-embedding Therapy has been used for treating Obesity in recent years. This research is aimed to observe the clinical effect of thread-embedding therapy in treating Simple Obesity. One hundred patients is planned to be enrolled in the research and receive a thread-embedding therapy. The level of BMI, serum triglyceride, cholesterol and fasting blood glucose will be adopted for evaluation before and after therapy.
Detailed Description
Each participant will receive thread-embedding therapy every two weeks, and eight times in all.Blood test will be taken at the beginning of the first week of the whole therapy, and at the end of the 8th therapy. During the periods of whole therapy, the participants shall follow diets control and physical exercise as the protocol described.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •patients with age from 18 to 60 years old;
- •patients with BMI≥ 24, meanwhile waist more than 85 cm (for male) or 80 cm (for female);
- •patients with diagnosed as central adiposity and/or Simple obesity according to the diagnosis criteria；
- •patients who is willing to cooperate with the test treatment and signed informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Pregnant or lactating women;
- •patients who Syncope after acupuncture；
- •patients who present hypersensitivity reactions after acupoint-embedding therapy;
- •patients with serious heart, liver, kidney, brain and other diseases;
- •patients with severe primary diseases;
- •patients with psychiatric diseases；
- •patients who did not meet the criteria for the inclusion criteria while investigators find out during the trial;
- •participants who did not complete dietary control and physical exercise as the protocol described.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The change Body Weight
Time Frame: participants will receive Thread-embedding Therapy twice a week lasting for 16 weeks subsequently.8 times in all.
a 5 percent of loss of body weight will be judged as effective
Secondary Outcomes
- The effection on cholesterol(Therapy is the same as mentioned above. Participants will take blood test at the beginning of the first week of the therapy, and at the end of the 16th week.)
- The effection on triglyceride(Therapy is the same as mentioned above. Participants will take blood test at the beginning of the first week of the therapy, and at the end of the 16th week.)
- The effection on fasting blood glucose(Therapy is the same as mentioned above. Participants will take blood test at the beginning of the first week of the therapy, and at the end of the 16th week.)