Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome factors of patients with HIV infection or AIDS in China
| Autor: | Hui-jun Guo, Zhong-li Xie, Yong-xin Dong, Qing Zhou, Xiu-lan Ma, Qingya Li, Bo Peng, Hua-wei Li, Lin-chun Fu, Feng Jiang, Xuan-xian Guo, Shi-ping Xie, Yantao Jin, Yan-ping Hu, Jian-ping Ma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male China medicine.medical_specialty Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) HIV Infections Signs and symptoms Traditional Chinese medicine medicine.disease_cause Diagnosis Differential Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Internal medicine medicine Humans Medicine Chinese Traditional Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Aids patients Traditional medicine business.industry Phlegm virus diseases Middle Aged medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Complementary and alternative medicine Etiology Female medicine.symptom Factor Analysis Statistical business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine. 9:955-964 |
| ISSN: | 1672-1977 |
| DOI: | 10.3736/jcim20110906 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE To study the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome factors of patients from different areas of China with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). METHODS A cross-sectional investigation study was conducted in Henan, Guangdong and Yunnan Provinces and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China from October 2008 to August 2010. Based on literature review and expert opinion, a clinical questionnaire of TCM syndromes was drawn up. This survey was carried out after the investigators were professionally trained. Wenfeng III Auxiliary Diagnosis and Treat System of TCM was used to analyze the frequencies of AIDS patients' signs and symptoms with scores above 70 of syndrome factors respectively. Based on this work, syndrome factors of AIDS were analyzed in different areas. RESULTS There were 608 HIV/AIDS cases investigated from October 2008 to August 2010 in total; among them, 276 cases were from Henan, 126 cases from Guangdong, 120 cases from Xinjiang and 86 cases from Yunnan. The results of syndrome factor analysis indicated that the syndromes of four provinces were similar. HIV/AIDS patients in the four areas exhibited qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, yang deficiency, dampness, phlegm, qi stagnation and essence deficiency syndromes. Patients in each area also had their own characteristics, such as that the scores of dampness of Guangdong and yin deficiency of Xinjiang were higher than the other syndromes, whereas the scores of Henan Province were higher than the other areas. AIDS patients had higher scores of syndromes than HIV-infected patients. CONCLUSION HIV/AIDS patients from different areas had similar syndrome elements. The theory of "AIDS toxin injuring primordial qi" can sum up the TCM etiology and pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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