A Clinical Trial of Thread-embedding Therapy at Acupuncture Point for Simple Obesity

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Weight Loss; Simple Obesity

Treatments: Other: Thread-embedding Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03325179

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Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

participants received treatment

Experimental group

Description:

100 participants who are diagnosed as simple obesity under the standards of... are planned to enrolled in the trial. Each will receive Thread-embedding therapy.

Treatment:

Other: Thread-embedding Therapy