Acupuncture Efficacy on Lipids in Tinnitus Patients With Obesity

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tinnitus, Subjective; Lipids; Obesity

Treatments: Other: true acupuncture; Other: sham acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05188365

P.T.REC/012/003525

Details and patient eligibility

About

nowadays, published literature affirms strong relation between tinnitus, obesity, and high lipids of blood.

Full description

For 8 weeks, our study will search effect of acupuncture on tinnitus (chronic subjective type), lipids and weight reduction in obese persons.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• obese patients
• tinnitus complaints (chronic subjective form)

Exclusion criteria

• diabetics
• cardiovascular and neurogenic manifestations

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

group A

Active Comparator group

Description:

different body acupuncture points will be selected to be manually punctured in addition to 4 acupoints on the skin of abdominal surface (the four points will be electrical stimulated during acupuncture). the session (20 minutes) will repeated thrice weekly. the total duration of the study will be 60 days. The points that will be manually acupunctured all over the body of every patient will be: SJ(3)/SJ(5)/SJ(17)/SJ(18)/SJ(19)/SJ(20)/SJ(21)/SJ(22)/GB(2)/GB(8)/GB(20)/LI(4)/LI(11)/KI(3)/SP(6)/ST(36)/REN(4)/REN(9)/REN(12) The acupuncture points that will be electrically stimulated on the abdomen of every patient will be: bilateral Stomach 25 in addition to gallbladder 28 acupoints.

Treatment:

Other: true acupuncture

Group B

Sham Comparator group

Description:

different body acupuncture points will be selected to be manually punctured in addition to 4 acupoints on the skin of abdominal surface (the four points will be electrical stimulated during acupuncture). opposite to group A, in this group, the acupuncture needles will be inserted manually and very adjacent to the real location of group-A acupoints (sham acupuncture). The electrical stimulator will connected to abdominal acupoints (bilateral Stomach 25 in addition to gallbladder 28 acupoints) but it will be turned off during the sessions. the session will repeated thrice weekly. the total duration of the study will be 60 days.

Treatment:

Other: sham acupuncture