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Abstract

Objective: Evaluate the effect of electro-acupuncture and nutritional counseling in the treatment of obese patients and monitor the unwanted effects of the method during treatment.

Subjects and research methods: Study of a clinical trial comparing before and after treatment using electroacupuncture combined with nutritional intervention with a course of 20 days in 65 patients, who were under the treatment at Tue Tinh Hospital from May 2021 to February 2022. Patients were intervened by

acupuncture method based on available acupressure protocol combined with nutritional counseling according to the nutrition pyramid of the National Institute of Nutrition in 2020.

Results: Through the study, after treatment, BMI, waist circumference, buttock circumference, WHR and weight decreased statistically significantly compared to before treatment and the group that adhered to a good diet had a higher improvement performance. compared with the other group is statistically significant on most of the indicators. Overall results of assessment based on weight loss response showed that the group of patients with good response (42.42%) was higher than the group with poor nutritional compliance (34.38%).

Conclusions: Electro-acupuncture and nutritional counseling are effective in the treatment of fat loss in obese patients, the method changes BMI, WHR, and paraclinical indexes and causes few unwanted effects on patients.