Associations between Traditional Chinese Medicine Body Constitution and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a White population.

ABSTRACT:

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. However, no study has assessed the body constitution in US population.

Methods

This is an ancillary study of the Personalized Prevention of Colorectal Cancer Trial which conducted in US in 2012-2016. 191 white participants were evaluated for body constitution type using a self-administered Traditional Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (English version). The body constitution subtypes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk were assessed.

Results

Fifty-seven (29.8%) were identified as balanced constitution (BC), while Blood-stasis (17.3%), Qi-deficient (13.6%), and inherited-special const

SUBMITTER: Shu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12657019 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature