Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of participants

Group	No. of participants	Age	Sex-wise count of participants		BMI	Base heart rate
			Male	Female
Acupoint stimulation group	20	19.60 $\pm$ 1.31	7	13	22.27 $\pm$ 0.66	73.95 $\pm$ 9.75
Muscle stimulation group	20	20.60 $\pm$ 2.37	8	12	22.52 $\pm$ 1.19	72.70 $\pm$ 10.48
Control group	20	20.50 $\pm$ 2.69	8	12	20.77 $\pm$ 0.44	73.75 $\pm$ 9.79
$F/H/c^2$		0.294	0.932		2.385	0.914