Status:
UNKNOWN
A Clinical Trial of Thread-embedding Therapy at Acupuncture Point for Simple Obesity
Lead Sponsor:
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Conditions:
Weight Loss
Simple Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-60 years
Phase:
NA
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 p...
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 8...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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
- 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.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 3 2017
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
March 31 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03325179
Start Date
January 3 2017
End Date
March 31 2018
Last Update
October 30 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Institute of Digestive Diseases of Longhua Hospital affiliate to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200032