Jingjie Zhao, Qianyi Wang, Xinyu Zhao, Lina Wu, Juanjuan Li, Wen Zhang, Shuai Xu, Chaoru Han, Yi Du, Xiaofei Tong, Weijia Duan, Di Cao, Hao Ren, Xinyan Zhao, Xiaojuan Ou, Jidong Jia, Hong You
BACKGROUND: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) had not yet been approved therapy. Electro-acupuncture (EA) has been reported to have potential efficacy. However, high-quality clinical evidence was still lacking. METHODS: NASH patients were randomized and allocated to either sham acupuncture (SA) or EA group in a 1:1 ratio, with the patient blinded. Each patient received 36 sessions of SA or EA treatment over 12 weeks, followed by additional 4 weeks. The primary outcome was the changes in relative liver fat content measured by magnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF)...
February 24, 2023: Chinese Medicine