Japanese traditional Kampo medicine bofutsushosan improves body mass index in participants with obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Kazushi Uneda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazushi Uneda, Yuki Kawai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: uneda@fmu.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Kampo Medicine, Aizu Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9660-142X

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• Yuki Kawai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazushi Uneda, Yuki Kawai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

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• Takayuki Yamada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Akira Kaneko,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kampo Medicine, Aizu Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

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• Ryuji Saito,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kampo Medicine, Aizu Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

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• Lin Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Cardiology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Tomoaki Ishigami,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

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• Takao Namiki,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Japanese-Oriental (Kampo) Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

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• Tadamichi Mitsuma

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kampo Medicine, Aizu Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

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