Simple Obesity, Weight Loss
Conditions
Keywords
Simple Obesity, Thread-embedding Therapy, Acupuncture
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.
Interventions
OTHERThread-embedding Therapy
Sponsors
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The change Body Weight | 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
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | a target examined by blood test, in order to compare the Lipid metabolism |
| 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. | a target examined by blood test, in order to compare the Lipid metabolism |
| 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. | to compare the level of glucose in order to get the message of improvement of blood glucose disorder by our therapy. |
Countries
China
Contacts
Primary ContactMiao Wang
Outcome results
None listed