The Investigation of the Correlation between Metabolic Syndrome and Chinese Medicine Constitution Types in Senior Retired Military Personnel of the People's Liberation Army

作     者：封颖璐 郑国银 凌昌全 

作者机构：Department of Geriatricsthe 401st Hospital of the People's Liberation Army Department of Traditional Chinese MedicineChanghai Hospital of the Second Military Medicine University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (中国结合医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第18卷第7期

页      面：485-489页

核心收录：

学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1005[医学-中医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 1009[医学-特种医学] 

基　　金：Supported by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Project of General Logistics Department(No.10ZYZ211) 

主　　题：aged metabolism syndrome body constitution clinical trial cross-sectional studies 

摘      要：Objective： To investigate the incidence of metabolic syndrome （MS） and the distribution of constitutional pattern in elderly retired personnel of the People＇s Liberation Army. Methods： Adopting the method of cross-sectional field investigation, from June to December in 2008, the investigation questionnaires were completed by the aged over 60 and collected from 69 military retired residences in the 4 cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Qingdao. Other data, including demographic characteristics, physiological characteristics, life style and former medical history, were collected and analyzed. The statistical analysis for the database was drawn up by the software Epidata 3.0. Results： A total of 4,502 people were included in this study, and 35.3% of them were diagnosed with MS. There was no obvious difference in mobility among ages （60 to 69, 70 to 79 and over 80, P〉0.05）. Referring to the MS patients in the 70s age group, both the phlegm- dampness and dampness-heat constitutional types were evidently higher than those in the 60s age group （P=0.019, P=O.O08）; while MS patients in 80s and older showed a significantly lower incidence of dampness- heat constitution than those in the 60s （P=O.O0）; and qi-deficiency constitution was obviously higher in the 80s age group than those in the other two groups （P=O.O0）. The top 3 constitutions in MS people were, respectively, phlegm-dampness, dampness-heat and qi-deficiency constitution; while in non-MS people, the top 3 constitutions were gentleness, qi-deficiency and phlegm-dampness. When the patient＇s body mass index （BMI） was more than 25 kg/m2, the rate of phlegm-dampness and dampness-heat constitution significantly increased, while the rate of qi-deficiency constitution declined; the discrepancy was significant （P=O.O0）. Conclusions： The prevalence rate of MS in military senior people was 35.3%, which did not vary among the three age groups. Phlegm-dampness, dampness-heat and qi-deficiency constitution were the three