ArticleLonghua Chinese medicine2023
Associations between traditional Chinese medicine body constitution and obesity risk among US adults.
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- Correlation between the immune response to COVID-19 vaccines and the constitutions of traditional Chinese medicine.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine body constitutions in a large community-based study in Hangzhou, China.Chinese medicine · 2025Article
- Associations between traditional Chinese medicine body constitution and obesity risk among US adults.Longhua Chinese medicine · 2023Article
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Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) body constitution (BC), primarily determined by physiological and clinical characteristics, is an important process for clinical diagnosis and treatment and play a critical role in precision medicine in TCM. The purpose of the study was to explore whether the distributions of BC types differed by obesity status. Methods: We conducted a study to evaluate BC type in US population during 2012-2016. A total of 191 White participants from Personalized Prevention of Colorectal Cancer Trial (PPCCT) completed a self-administered Traditional Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (TCMQ, English version). In this study, we further compared the distribution of major types of TCM BC in the PPCCT to those Chinese populations stratified by obesity status. Results: We found the Blood-stasis frequency was higher in US White adults, 22.6% for individuals with BMI <30 and 11.2% for obese individuals, compared to 1.4% and 1.8%, respectively, in Chinese populations. We also found the percentages Inherited-special and Qi-stagnation were higher in US White adults than those in Chinese populations regardless of obesity status. However, the proportions of Yang-deficiency were higher in Chinese populations than those in our study conducted in US White adults regardless of obesity status. Conclusions: These new findings indicate the difference in distribution of BC types we observed between US and Chinese populations cannot be explained by the differences in prevalence of obesity. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings and understand the potential mechanism including genetic background and/or environmental factors.
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