NCT02269046

Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Hyperlipemia

A Multi-center, Randomized, Stratified, Active-controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Hyperlipidemias

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 210 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of 12 weeks of acupuncture and moxibustion compared with active control, on absolute and percent change from baseline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) among those with hyperlipidemia.

Conditions

• Hyperlipidemias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	acupuncture and moxibustion	Warm needling acupuncture on Fenglong (ST40, bilateral), Zusanli (ST36, bilateral), Sanyinjiao (SP6, bilateral) and Cake-seperated moxibustion on Juque (RN14), Tianshu (ST25, bilateral), Pishu (BL20, bilateral), Xinshu (BL15, bilateral), Ganshu (BL18, bilateral), Shenshu (BL23, bilateral)
DRUG	Simvastatin	10mg/d,p.o,12 weeks.
OTHER	Therapeutic Lifestyle Change	* Reduced intakes of saturated fats (\<7% of total calories) and cholesterol (\<200 mg per day) * Therapeutic options for enhancing LDL lowering * Weight reduction * Increased physical activity

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-12-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2014-10-20
• Last updated: 2014-10-20

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: China