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

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 o...

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Autores principales: Yang, Ze, Huang, Kai, Yang, Yang, Xu, Qike, Guo, Qiaofeng, Wang, Xiang
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10014526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936150
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1028708
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author Yang, Ze
Huang, Kai
Yang, Yang
Xu, Qike
Guo, Qiaofeng
Wang, Xiang
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Huang, Kai
Yang, Yang
Xu, Qike
Guo, Qiaofeng
Wang, Xiang
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description 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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spelling pubmed-100145262023-03-16 Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis Yang, Ze Huang, Kai Yang, Yang Xu, Qike Guo, Qiaofeng Wang, Xiang Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10014526/ /pubmed/36936150 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1028708 Text en Copyright © 2023 Yang, Huang, Yang, Xu, Guo and Wang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Yang, Ze
Huang, Kai
Yang, Yang
Xu, Qike
Guo, Qiaofeng
Wang, Xiang
Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_fullStr Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_short Efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_sort efficacy of traditional chinese exercise for obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
topic Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10014526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936150
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1028708
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