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

NCT ID: NCT03325179

Last Updated: 2017-10-30

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-01-03

Study Completion Date

2018-03-31

Brief Summary

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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

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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.

Conditions

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Weight Loss Simple Obesity

Keywords

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Simple Obesity Thread-embedding Therapy Acupuncture

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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participants received treatment

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.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Thread-embedding Therapy

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Thread-embedding Therapy

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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.

* participants who did not complete dietary control and physical exercise as the protocol described.

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；
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Institute of Digestive Diseases of Longhua Hospital affiliate to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Miao Wang

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +86-64385700

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Guang Ji

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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shutcmidd

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id