Berberine and Reduced Waist Circumference

• The effect of berberine on obesity indices: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-11-27
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 23
  • International journal of obesity (2005) 50(1)
  • • Iman Elahi Vahed
    • Erfan Shahir-Roudi
    • Sina Nojumi
    • Samieh Golmohammadi
    • Mehdi Moradi Shahrebabak
    • Niloofar Sharafi Tafreshi Moghadam
    • Amir Sajad Bagheryan
    • Maryam Moftakhar
    • Fateme Shamsipour
    • Mahla Jafari
    • Hossein Soltaninejad
    • Mohammad Rahmanian

  • PubMed: 41310257
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41366-025-01943-x

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Waist Circumference

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  WC (MD of -1.32 kg/m², 95% CI: -2.24 to -0.41, p < 0.0046)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes