RETRACTED ARTICLE: Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion

Table 3 Changes in waist circumference (WC) over the 8-week intervention program

Week	Control group (kg), mean ± SD	p-value^a	Experimental group (kg), mean ± SD	p-value^a	p-value^b
Week	(n = 26)	p-value^a	(n = 25)	p-value^a	p-value^b
1st week	0		0
2nd week	0.365 ± 1.054	0.0894	− 0.471 ± 1.165	0.0544	0.0097
4th week	0.577 ± 1.181	0.0197	− 1.710 ± 2.013	0.0003	< 0.0001
6th week	0.712 ± 1.733	0.0466	− 2.499 ± 2.542	0.0001	< 0.0001
8th week	0.673 ± 1.655	0.0485	− 3.157 ± 3.289	0.0001	< 0.0001
Slope of time	0.0798	0.0003	− 0.4240	< 0.0001	< 0.0001

^ap-value: from comparison between each week during the follow-up and the baseline measure (week 1)
^bp-value: from comparison between control and experiment groups

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