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Using Chinese Body Constitution Concepts and Measurable Variables for Assessing Risk of Coronary Artery Disease.
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- The Relationship between the Second-Generation Antipsychotics Efficacy and the Traditional Chinese Medicine Body Constitutions in Patients with Schizophrenia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIdentifying patients with high risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is often difficult in outpatient clinic settings. This study aimed to explore if the measurement of body constitution can be adopted to predict the risk of CAD diagnosis. The objective of this study is to conduct a prospective observational study and a case-control study to answer the research question. STUDY
designPart 1 (prospective observational study): a total of 143 patients with chest pain and admitted to receive cardiac catheterization were enrolled, and 108 of them were diagnosed with CAD. Part 2 (case-control study): the above 108 CAD patients and 476 healthy controls matched by age and gender from the participants of Taiwan Biobank were adopted for comparison.
main outcome measuresThe body constitution of both patients and healthy controls were measured by the Body Constitution Questionnaire (BCQ). Each one received scores of
results(Part 1) No difference was found between the scores of
conclusionsThis study is the first to apply Chinese body constitution concepts and measurable variables to assess the risk of having CAD of the patients with chest pain prior to receiving cardiac catheterization. The higher scores of
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