SynthesisJournal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan2022
Systematic review and Meta-analysis of acupuncture and acupoint catgut embedding for the treatment of abdominal obesity.
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Efficacy and Safety of Thread Embedding Acupuncture Combined With Auricular Acupuncture for Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hard-flaccid syndrome: a systematic review of aetiopathophysiology, clinical presentation and management.International journal of impotence research · 2026Pooled it
- Acupoint catgut embedding for improving HOMA-IR in patients with abdominal obesity and insulin resistance: a protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- The effects of acupoint catgut embedding therapy on anthropometric parameters and endocrine function in obese women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of combining Qingyanyin formulated granules with press needles in treating abdominal obesity: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Trial
- 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
- Effectiveness and safety of acupoint catgut embedding for patients with mild psoriasis and overweight: study protocol of a multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Acupuncture and moxibustion as effective treatments for simple obesity in children: a meta-analysis.American journal of translational research · 2025Review
- Electroacupuncture for abdominal obesity: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Dilemmas in Elderly Diabetes and Clinical Practice Involving Traditional Chinese Medicine.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo systematically review and analyze the effect of acupuncture and acupoint catgut embedding in treatment of abdominal obesity to provide a more reasonable clinical treatment regimen.
methodsTen databases were searched as of August 2022: the English databases PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Wiley, and Scopus and the Chinese databases China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, China Science and Technology Journal Database, Wanfang, and SinoMed/Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of acupuncture and acupoint catgut embedding as the main interventions to treat abdominal obesity were extracted. The investigators imported the citations into EndNote version X9.1 for deduplication, screening, extraction, and integration. The risk of bias in the included RCTs was assessed according to the Cochrane Handbook. RevMan 5.4 software was used to conduct a Meta-analysis of RCTs that met the inclusion criteria.
resultsThirteen RCTs (1069 patients) were included in this study, and the data of eleven RCTs (966 patients) were include in the Meta-analysis. The results showed that acupoint catgut embedding can significantly change the weight and waist circumference of patients with abdominal obesity when compared to sham acupuncture or no treatment [mean difference () = 2.32, 95% confidence interval () (1.88, 2.76), < 0.000 01], [ = 3.47, 95% (1.99, 4.94), < 0.000 01]. The change in hip circumference after acupuncture was also significant [ = 0.89, 95% (0.12, 1.66), = 0.02].
conclusionThis study found that acupuncture and acupoint catgut embedding can effectively treat abdominal obesity, therefore, these interventions can be used as clinical supplements and alternative therapies. The diagnostic criteria of the existing studies and the intervention measures of the control group are not unified. It will be necessary to improve the clinical study protocols and expand the sample size to further validate the reliability of the results obtained of this study.
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