13 / 14
Page 29
Notes:
conferenceseries
.com
Volume 8
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
Obesity Meeting 2018
August 24-25, 2018
August 24-25, 2018 Singapore
20
th
Global Obesity Meeting
Eun Jung Choi, J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C6-072
Effects of electrical muscle stimulation on waist circumference in adults: A randomized controlled trials
Eun Jung Choi
Daedong Hospital, Republic of Korea
O
besity is one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide and the biggest concern of public health. To the
best of our knowledge, no Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) evaluating the effect of EMS on obesity or regional
fat distribution have been performed. We hypothesized that EMS is an effective and safe treatment of man and woman with
abdominal obesity so that EMS decrease Waist Circumference (WC) or abdominal fat, increase abdominal muscle mass and
improve biochemical markers. Therefore, we designed first RCT study to investigate EMS efficacy for 12-week program by
comparing it with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS). EMS group had a 5.1±2.8 cm decreased in WC while
TENS group showed a 2.9±3.3 cm loss inWC after 12 weeks. In EMS group, WC declined more sharply in the latter half then in
the first half of the study. Furthermore, when dividing participants in subgroups according to the degree of WC loss (less than
2 cm, 2 cm to 4 cm and more than 4 cm), 70.0% of EMS group lost 4 cm more off of their WC while 46.7% of TENS group lost
lesser than 2 cm of their WC. There was no difference between EMS and TENS in self-rated satisfaction scores at week 1 but
there was significant difference at week 12 (3.3
0.7 vs. 3.7
0.7 p<0.05). In abdominal fat distribution and other metabolic and
biochemical characteristics, there were no differences between EMS and TENS groups throughout 12 weeks. However, fasting
FFA levels were significantly higher in EMS than TENS group at week 12. All participants completed the protocol without
adverse symptoms. No changes in CK, LDH, AST, ALT and Cr were observed in both groups during the experimental period.
Therefore, 12-week program of EMS significantly reduced the waist in abdominal obese adults without side effects. Therefore
EMS is an effective and safe treatment of man and woman with abdominal obesity.
Biography
Eun Jung Choi is very popular in Busan as a professional Dieter becuase she lost 20 kgs in 2 years by lifestlye modification and is maintaining her BMI as 22 for 1
year. She gave lecture at Korean Scociety for the study of obesity in 2016 about losing weight. She was on KNN TV talkshow on Jan 7, 2018 about diet and also
wrote many newspaper articles.
ej_jump@hanmail.net