Berberine and Reduced Waist-to-Hip Ratio

• 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-to-Hip Ratio

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  berberine did not significantly reduce WHR compared to control groups (MD of -0.01, 95% CI: -0.03 to 0.01)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No