RETRACTED ARTICLE: Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion

Table 4 Changes in waist size to hip size (waist-to-hip ratio, WHR) 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	0.001 ± 0.011	0.7269	− 0.001 ± 0.018	0.8044	0.6942
4th week	0.004 ± 0.012	0.1092	− 0.007 ± 0.025	0.1813	0.0596
6th week	0.006 ± 0.016	0.0717	− 0.014 ± 0.027	0.0212	0.0040
8th week	0.003 ± 0.014	0.1163	− 0.019 ± 0.028	0.0045	0.0019
Slope of time (SE)	0.0007	0.0046	− 0.0023	< 0.0001	< 0.0001

Change was calculated as follow-up measurement minus baseline measurement (week 1)
^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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