RETRACTED ARTICLE: Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion

Table 2 Changes in BW 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	0.142 ± 0.489	0.1505	− 0.212 ± 0.357	0.0067	0.0050
4th week	0.077 ± 0.418	0.3580	− 0.728 ± 0.587	< 0.0001	< 0.0001
6th week	0.069 ± 0.562	0.5356	− 1.039 ± 0.712	< 0.0001	< 0.0001
8th week	− 0.038 ± 0.540	0.7197	− 1.478 ± 1.075	< 0.0001	< 0.0001
Slope of time (SE)	− 0.0134 (0.008)	0.0961	− 0.1939	< 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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