PapersPMID:22081616
Lycium barbarum increases caloric expenditure and decreases waist circumference in healthy overweight men and women: pilot study.
What moved
1 findingHow to read these marks →- Decreases waist circumference
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“(2) In a 14-day intervention trial, L. barbarum was found to significantly decrease waist circumference by 5.5 ± 0.8 cm (n = 15) compared with the preintervention measurements and placebo group at postintervention day 15 (p < 0.01).”
- Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 14 days
- Dose studied
- 120 ml daily
- Population
- Healthy overweight adults, mean age 34 years, mean body mass index 29 kg/m2; 14-day trial
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Healthy overweight men and women
- Participants
- not reported
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 14 days
- Endpoints measured
- 4