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Associations between traditional Chinese medicine body constitution and cardiovascular disease risk in a white population [PDF]

Aging and Health Research
Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has guided generations of practice on disease treatment and health maintenance. The TCM principles include the framework of body constitution.
Lihua Shu, Xiaoling Yin, Xiangzhu Zhu, Jing Zhao, Xinqing Deng, Yevheniy Eugene Shubin, Harvey J. Murff, Reid M. Ness, Chang Yu, Martha J. Shrubsole, Qi Dai   +10 more
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A bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study to evaluate the relationship between body constitution and hearing loss [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Hearing loss and hearing disorders represent possible mediating pathways in the associations between noise exposures and non-auditory health outcomes. In this context, we assessed whether the noise-obesity associations should consider hearing functions ...
Yiyan He, Ville Karhunen, Anna Pulakka, Marko Kantomaa, Sylvain Sebert   +4 more
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Valid and Convenient Questionnaire Assessment of Chinese Body Constitution: Item Characteristics, Reliability, and Construct Validation [PDF]

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2022
Taoying Lu,1– 3 Jingwen Yan,4 Jianfang Chang,5 Jianxiong Cai,1– 3 Lingjia Yin,1,3,6 Jiamin Yuan,1,7 Li Huang,1,7 Yingshuai Li,8 Minghua Bai,9 Kit-Tai Hau,5 Darong Wu,1– 3 Zhimin Yang1,7 1State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome of Chinese Medicine, The ...
Lu T, Yan J, Chang J, Cai J, Yin L, Yuan J, Huang L, Li Y, Bai M, Hau KT, Wu D, Yang Z   +11 more
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Concepts of body constitution in traditional Siddha texts: A literature review [PDF]

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2019
Analysis of body constitution has been in practice in most complementary and alternative systems of medicine. Siddha system of medicine practiced in South India consists of fundamental classical literature that stress on the importance of tri-humoral ...
Kannan Muthiah, Kiruthiga Ganesan, Manickam Ponnaiah, Sathiyarajeswaran Parameswaran   +3 more
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Associations of traditional Chinese medicine body constitution and all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study of a Taiwanese medical center [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
IntroductionThe objective of this study was to investigate associations between baseline body constitutions (BCs) in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and all-cause mortality in Chinese individuals with type 2 diabetes.MethodsA total of 887 individuals ...
Cheng-Hung Lee, Cheng-Hung Lee, Yi-Chang Su, Shih-Yi Lin, Shih-Yi Lin, Shih-Yi Lin, I-Te Lee, I-Te Lee, I-Te Lee, Chia-I Tsai, Chia-I Tsai, Tsai-Chung Li, Tsai-Chung Li   +12 more
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Beneficial effect of adjuvant traditional Chinese medicine therapy on body constitution symptoms and quality of life among breast cancer patients [PDF]

Frontiers in Oncology
BackgroundBreast cancer therapies effectively control tumors but frequently impose substantial symptom burden and impair quality of life (QOL). In integrative oncology practice, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is commonly used as adjunctive supportive
Chien-Wei Tseng, Ya-Ting Hsu, Ya-Ting Hsu, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Yao-Jen Chang, Yao-Jen Chang, Hsien-Chang Wu, Hsien-Chang Wu   +7 more
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Validation of the Cantonese version of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Body constitution Questionnaire in elderly people [PDF]

Chinese Medicine, 2023
Background The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Body Constitution Questionnaire (For Elderly People) (TCMECQ) is a patient-reported outcome questionnaire developed in Mandarin in 2013 to differentiate the body constitutions of the elderly aged 65 and ...
Yiu Lin Wong, Jialing Zhang, Xingyao Wu, Suet Yee Wong, Zheng Wang, Linda L. D. Zhong, Zhaoxiang Bian   +6 more
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Body Constitution and Unhealthy Lifestyles in a Primary Care Population at High Cardiovascular Risk: New Insights for Health Management [PDF]

International Journal of General Medicine, 2021
Yi Wang,1,* Xiao-Ya Wu,2,* Harry HX Wang,1,3 Yu-Ting Li,4 Yu Fu,1,5 Jia-Ji Wang,6,7 Jose Hernandez,8,9 Martin CS Wong3,10,11 1School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Shipai Community Health Centre,
Wang Y, Wu XY, Wang HHX, Li YT, Fu Y, Wang JJ, Hernandez J, Wong MCS   +7 more
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Measuring body constitution: Validation of the Body Constitution Questionnaire (BCQ) in Hong Kong

Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2014
The Body Constitution Questionnaire (BCQ) was developed in Taiwan to classify people into body constitution (BC) types based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theories. Since the culture of Hong Kong is different from Taiwan, the BCQ must be validated before a wider application can be preceded.To adapt and validate the Hong Kong version of BCQ in ...
Wendy Wong, Cindy L K Lam, Yi-Chang Su
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Constitution Embodiment [PDF]

Avant, 2017
In this paper I analyze constitution embodiment, a particular conception of embodiment. Proponents of constitution embodiment claim that the body is a condition of the constitution of entities.
Alexander Albert Jeuk
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