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Effects of TCMC on Transformation of Good Health Status to Suboptimal Health Status: A Nested Case-Control Study.
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Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM) . 8/6/2015, Vol. 2015, p1-8. 8p. 1 Diagram, 5 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- To explore the effects of traditional Chinese medicine constitution (TCMC) on transformation of good health status to suboptimal health status (SHS), we conducted a nested case-control study among college students in China. During the 18-month mean follow-up time, 543 cases of SHS (42.7%) occurred in 1273 healthy students. There was a significant (P=0.000) and marked reduction in SHMS V1.0 total score in the case group at the 18-month follow-up (69.32 ± 5.45) compared with baseline (78.60 ± 4.70), but there was no significant change in the control group. Conditional logistic regression analysis showed that respondents reporting Yin-deficiency and Qi-deficiency were, respectively, 2.247 and 2.198 times more likely to develop SHS, while tendency to Yin-deficiency and tendency to Damp-heat were, respectively, 1.642 and 1.506 times more likely to develop SHS. However, the Balanced Constitution was a significant protective factor (OR 0.649; P<0.05). Altogether, these findings demonstrate that Yin-deficiency, Qi-deficiency, tendency to Yin-deficiency, and tendency to Damp-heat appeared to induce a change in health status to SHS, while the Balanced Constitution seemed to restrain this change. We conclude that regulating the unbalanced TCMC (such as Yin-deficiency and Qi-deficiency) may prevent a healthy status developing into SHS or lead to the regression of SHS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COLLEGE students
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*STATISTICAL correlation
*HEALTH status indicators
*LONGITUDINAL method
*HUMAN constitution
*CHINESE medicine
*PERSONALITY
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*RESEARCH funding
*T-test (Statistics)
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
*CASE-control method
*DATA analysis software
*ODDS ratio
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1741427X
- Volume :
- 2015
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109030810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/259727