1. Correlation between Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution and Dyslipidemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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Ma, Ye-lin, Yao, Hui, Yang, Wei-jia, Ren, Xuan-xuan, Teng, Long, and Yang, Min-chun
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DRUG therapy for hyperlipidemia , *HYPERLIPIDEMIA , *CHINESE medicine , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *HERBAL medicine , *MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems , *HUMAN constitution , *MEDLINE , *META-analysis , *ONLINE information services , *SYSTEMATIC reviews , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ODDS ratio , *PREVENTION - Abstract
Objective. To study the correlation between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitution and dyslipidemia. Methods. CNKI, VIP, Wanfang database, CBMdisc, PubMed, and Embase were searched, and meta-analysis was performed by Review Manager 5.2 software. Results. Altogether 11 studies were included with 12890 individuals. The results showed that balanced constitution was a protective factor of dyslipidemia (OR = 0.62, 95% CI 0.47~0.82) while phlegm-dampness constitution was a risk factor of it (OR = 2.50, 95% CI 2.22~2.80), and the effect of phlegm-dampness constitution in South China (OR = 3.31, 95% CI 1.71~6.43) was more obvious than that in East (OR = 2.40, 95% CI 2.06~2.80) and North China (OR = 2.24, 95% CI 1.81~2.78). Conclusion. This study provides evidence for the prevention and treatment of dyslipidemia in TCM. However, most of the studies included are of moderate quality; more high quality, multicenter, large-sample studies are expected to provide higher level evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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