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Background: Based on the theory of Chinese Medicine, both yang-deficiency and yin- deficiency constitutions have been used to characterize the health status of the population. Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death in the elderly. There was rare study to explore the relationship between the constitutions of yin/yang deficiency and cardiovascular disease.
Aim: The objective of this study was to describe the proportion of yin/yang deficiency and cardiovascular disease in the elderly. Also, we investigated the factors affecting the cardiovascular disease.
Methods: A total of 2,353 elderly people aged 60-70 years were selected from the Taiwan Biobank Research Database. The study variables included the individuals’ demographics, past disease, health check data, and body constitution, where the constitutions of yin/yang deficiency were assessed using the Body Constitution Questionnaire (BCQ). Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with cardiovascular disease.
Results: The percentage of study participants who had cardiovascular disease was 38.5%. The proportions of the elderly people who had the constitutions in yin deficiency and yang deficiency were 16.6% and 13.1%, respectively. Logistic regression analysis show that elder, male, BMI ≧ 24, diabetes and the constitution of yang deficiency were the risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Conclusion: Elderly in Taiwan with the constitution of yang deficiency had a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, especially for obese men with diabetes. The elderly with the constitution of yang deficiency were suggested to accept detail cardiovascular examinations. Whether improving the constitution of yang deficiency by the Chinese medicine doctors is consistent with the change of cardiovascular health merits further study.
【Keywords】Elderly, Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Cardiovascular disease
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99.4 探討老年人陰／陽虛體質與心血管疾病相關性之研究
