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SynthesisFrontiers in endocrinology2023

Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ze Yang, Kai Huang, Yang Yang, Qike Xu, Qiaofeng Guo, Xiang Wang

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Synthesis in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ze YangThe First Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Kai HuangDepartment of Orthopedics, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China.
Yang YangDepartment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Neighborhood Good Doctor No. 6 Street Clinic, Hangzhou, China.
Qike XuDepartment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Neighborhood Good Doctor No. 6 Street Clinic, Hangzhou, China.
Qiaofeng GuoDepartment of Orthopedics, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China.
Xiang WangDepartment of Orthopedics, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China.
Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province · CNZhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Obesity is considered one of the biggest public health problems, especially in the background of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. It is urgent to find interventions to control and improve it. We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the effect of traditional Chinese exercise on obesity. Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), the Chinese Scientific Journal Database (VIP), the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), and WanFang database for updated articles published from the inception of each database to June 2022. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on traditional Chinese exercise in weight reduction were included, and related data were extracted. The random-effects model was used to adjust for the heterogeneity of the included studies, and funnel plots were used to examine publication bias. Results: A total of 701 participants were included in the 10 studies. Compared with the control group, the outcome of body weight [mean difference (MD) = -6.10; 95% CI = -8.79, -3.42], body mass index (MD = -2.03; 95% CI = -2.66, -1.41), body fat mass (MD = -3.12; 95% CI = -4.49, -1.75), waist circumference (MD = -3.46; 95% CI = -4.67, -2.24), hip circumference (MD = -2.94; 95% CI = -4.75, -1.30), and waist-to-hip ratio (MD = -0.04; 95% CI = -0.06, -0.03) in the intervention group had significant differences. Egger's test and funnel plots showed that the potential publication bias of the included studies was slight (p = 0.249). Conclusion: Traditional Chinese exercise is an effective treatment for obesity; people under the COVID-19 lockdown could do these exercises to control weight. However, a precise and comprehensive conclusion calls for RCTs on a larger scale with more rigorous designs considering the inferior methodological quality and limited retrieved articles. Systematic review registration: www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, identifier CRD42021270015.

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COVID-19ExerciseObesityCommunicable Disease ControlHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicBaduanjinCOVID-19 lockdownobesityQigongsystematic review and meta-analysisTai Chitraditional Chinese exerciseWuqinxi

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PMID36936150
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