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Article: Bilateral auricular acupuncture stimulation reduces body weight.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 8, 2004
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2004 SEP 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bilateral auricular acupuncture stimulation reduces body weight in mildly obese patients.
"We investigated the effects of auricular acupuncture stimulation on non-obese healthy volunteers and mildly obese patients. Subjects (n=55 and 5, respectively) averaged 34.5 years old, and BMI was 24.3 and less than 27.5 kg/m[superscript]2, respectively. We also studied the effects of single-blind sham treatment in approximately 500 age-, sex-, and BMI-matched subjects. Small (0.15 x 2.0 mm) auricular needles were placed intracutaneously into the bilateral cavum conchae identified by having a resistance of less than 100 ...