Turmeric and Reduced Waist Circumference

• Effects of curcumin on anthropometric measurements in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: An umbrella meta-analysis study.

  • 2026-05-08
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Medicine 105(19)
  • • Abinash Mahapatro
    • Herby Jeanty
    • Saisree Reddy Adla Jala
    • Kavya Priya Somu
    • Gautam Madineni
    • Elan Mohanty
    • Mohammed Dheyaa Marsool
    • Pourya Shamsi
    • Maryam Shahriari Namin
    • Shahin Abbaszadeh
    • Parsa Saberian
    • Ehsan Amini-Salehi
    • Arezoo Ghazalgoo

  • PubMed: 42116302
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000048629

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Waist Circumference

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  curcumin showed no significant effect on WC (SMD: -0.27; 95% CI: -0.57 to 0.04, P = .08) with high power (1-β = 0.96) but low epidemiological strength

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No