Efficacy and Safety of a Chinese Herbal Medicine Formula (RCM-104) in the Management of Simple Obesity: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

Table 1

Demographic and baseline health characteristics of all randomized subjects by group.

	RCM-104 (𝑛=59, Mean ± SD)	Control (𝑛=58, Mean ± SD)	𝑃-value
Gender
Male	10	10	0.97
Female	49	48
Age (years)	39.3±13.2	40.4±10.2	0.61
Weight (kg)	99.5±15.1	98.2±17.3	0.67
Male	105.5±15.1	108.3±21.1	0.41
Female	98±14.7	96.8±16.1	0.67
BMI (kg/m^2)	35.3±4.8	36.0±5.5	0.47
Heart rate (beats/min)	72.6±9.2	73±11.4	0.84
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	122.8±15.5	126.2±19.8	0.30
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	80.8±10.8	82.9±13.7	0.16
HbA1c (%)	5.3±0.3	5.6±0.8	0.008
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.5±0.8	1.6±0.8	0.50
Total Cholesterol (mmol/L)	5.6±1.5	5.5±1.5	0.71
LDL Cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.6±0.8	3.6±1.5	1.00
HDL Cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.5±0.08	1.4±0.23	0.002
Insulin (mIU/L)	10.7±9.2	15.1±3.6	0.001
Glucose (mmol/L)	4.8±0.5	5.2±1.5	0.058
Homa-index (%)	2.3±2.2	3.9±1.0	<0.001