Prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine body constitutions in a large community-based study in Hangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) views body constitution as a foundational determinant of health and disease risk. Understanding the distribution of body constitutions across the population can help in developing personalized strategies to prevent disease, but few studies have examined composite constitutions or unbalanced tendencies.

Methods

This cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of singular and composite (multiple) TCM body constitutions and tendencies in a sample of adult residents of Hangzhou, China. We used the 2016 version of the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (CCMQ, 54 items) to classify participants into nine body constitutions and tendencies toward those body constitutions and examined variations in those distributions by dem

SUBMITTER: Wu YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12661724 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature