ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2020
Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture for Simple Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04957134 (The Efficacy and Safety of Electro-acupuncture for Abdominal Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
The Efficacy and Safety of Electro-acupuncture for Abdominal Obesity: Original Study for a Multicenter, Randomized, Sham-controlled Trial
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and safety of acupuncture modalities for overweight and obesity treatment: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of RCTs.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of electroacupuncture on anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Acupoint catgut embedding versus acupuncture for simple obesity: a systematic review and Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for simple obesity in adults: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Electroacupuncture Reduces Waistline in Patients with Abdominal Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Mechanistic Analysis of Lipidomic and Intestinal Microbiota.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025Trial
- Electroacupuncture Alleviates Oxidative Stress and Cuproptosis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Mice Through Activation of the NRF2/ARE Pathway.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2026Article
- Electroacupuncture at ST25 mediated glial cells pruning of pancreatic TRPV1 neural synapse responds to neuropathy-associated beta cell dysfunction.Chinese medicine · 2025Article
- Keys to the switch of fat burning: stimuli that trigger the uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) activation in adipose tissue.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Review
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- Acupuncture as an Adjunct to Lifestyle Interventions for Weight Loss in Simple Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2024Review
- Multidisciplinary Progress in Obesity Research.Genes · 2022Review
- Acupuncture Therapies for Individuals with Overweight or Obesity: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2022Review
- Electroacupuncture Combined With Diet Treatment Has a Therapeutic Effect on Perimenopausal Patients With Abdominal Obesity by Improving the Community Structure of Intestinal Flora.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Autonomic-cyclooxygenase-2 Mechanisms of Electroacupuncture on Thermal Injury-induced Gastric Dysmotility in Rats.Journal of translational gastroenterologyArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of electroacupuncture in the treatment of simple obesity.
methodsRandomized clinical trials concerning electroacupuncture as a treatment of simple obesity published prior to October 31, 2019, were searched in the following Chinese and English databases: Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WanFang Database, China Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus. After data collection and quality evaluation, meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software and Stata 15.0 software.
resultsA total of 13 studies involving 937 patients with simple obesity were included in the meta-analysis. Results revealed that the total effective rate (RR = 1.29, 95% CI [1.13, 1.48];
conclusionFor treating simple obesity, electroacupuncture is superior to other interventions such as acupuncture, acupoint catgut embedding therapy, and simple lifestyle modification for improvement in body fat rate, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio, although not hip circumference. Acupoint analysis revealed that ST25, CV12, CV4, SP6, and ST36 can form the basis for electroacupuncture therapy for the treatment of simple obesity.
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Registered trials
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