Experts from 6 hospitals including Peking Union Medical College Hospital jointly published the latest research results in the sub-journal of The Lancet!

A clinical research paper on digestive tract vibration capsules jointly completed by experts from 6 hospitals including Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Beijing Jishuitan Hospital was published in the sub-issue of the authoritative medical journal "The Lancet" on May 25, local time.
In Electronic Clinical Medicine
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The results of the study showed that 64% of patients in the treatment group who received vibrating capsules had an increase in the number of completely spontaneous bowel movements more than 1 time per week, which was 28% higher than the control group
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The prevalence of chronic constipation in adults in China ranges from 4% to 10%
.
Chronic constipation includes functional, organic and drug-induced constipation.
Among them, functional constipation has complex and diverse causes, long treatment cycles, and repeated treatment effects, which not only bring great economic burden to patients, but also bring serious derivative problems.
, and some cause patients with hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse
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Liao Zhuan, the corresponding author of the paper and a professor of gastroenterology at Changhai Hospital, said that from December 2018 to February 2020, the clinical trial was carried out in the gastroenterology departments of six comprehensive tertiary hospitals
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The results showed that among 106 patients with functional constipation aged 18 to 74 years, 64% of the vibrating capsule group increased the number of completely spontaneous bowel movements more than 1 time per week, which was 28% higher than that of the placebo control group
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The 4-week follow-up after the end of the clinical trial by scientists also found that about 37.
3% of the people in the vibrating capsule group could maintain the effect of increasing the number of spontaneous complete bowel movements more than 1 time per week, which was 17% higher than that of the control group
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Li Jingnan, chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, who participated in the study, said that when the capsules pass through the digestive tract after being swallowed, they will perform intermittent "massage" at a set frequency for up to 6 hours, which may activate the enteric nerve network and wake up the intestines.
Power, promote colon peristalsis, thereby relieving and treating constipation
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Judging from the results of clinical trials, vibrating capsules have opened up a new way of treating constipation
.