The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness between electroacupuncture treatment with dietary intervention and thread embedded acupuncture with dietary intervention in reducing body weight, waist circumference, and leptin level in obese patients.
The purpose of this study is to describe reducement in body weight, waist circumference, and leptin level in obese patients with dietary intervention and electroacupuncture or dietary intervention with thread embedded acupuncture. It is also to analyze mean differences of body weight, waist circumference, and leptin level in obese patients between the two interventions. The results of the study expected to be used as an operating standard procedure for obese patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
34
Stimulating acupoints using electric stimulator
Stimulating acupoints using thread embedded
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital
Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
Body weight
Participants' body weight in kilograms
Time frame: 1 month
Waist circumference
Waist circumference is measured at the end of several consecutive natural breaths, at the level parallel to the floor, midpoint between the top of the iliac crest and the lower margin of the last palpable rib in the midaxillary line
Time frame: 1 month
Leptin level
Plasma leptin examination using ELISA method
Time frame: 1 month
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