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Acupuncture for Obesity on Serum Metabolic Parameters

NCT02066090 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2017-11-17

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Summary

This research is planned to build a basis about the effect of acupuncture on serum metabolic parameters in pre-menopausal obese women with economic evaluation.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Real acupuncture

manual acupuncture (bilateral LI4, LI11, SP6, ST25, ST28, ST36) + electroacupuncture (middle CV6, CV12), twice a week, for 6 weeks common approaches for the treatment of obesity used by doctors of Korean medicine in Korea today

DEVICE

Sham acupuncture

sham acupuncture (bilateral LI4, LI11, SP6, ST25, ST28, ST36) + placebo acupuncture without electrical stimulation (middle CV6, CV12), twice a week, for 6 weeks sham acupuncture (0.25mm diameter x 40mm length, stainless steel, Acuprime, UK) as control for manual acupuncture (0.25mm diameter x 40mm length, stainless steel, Dongbangacupuncture Inc., Korea) placebo acupuncture without electrical stimulation as control for electroacupuncture (0.25mm diameter x 90mm length, stainless steel, Dongbangacupuncture Inc., Korea)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mi-Yeon Song, Ph.D. · Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Gangdong Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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