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KMID : 1200820050050040336
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Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine
2005 Volume.5 No. 4 p.336 ~ p.346
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A relationship between Stroke and Sasang Constitution in Korean
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Go Ho-Yeon
Jeon Chan-Yong
Park Jong-Hyeong
Yoon Yoo-Sik
Lee Sun-Dong
Han Chang-Ho
Jung Woo-sang
Moon Sang-Kwan
Cho Ki-Ho
Ko Seong-Gyu
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Abstract
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Experts of Sasang Constitution Medicine of Traditional Korean Medicine have classified stroke patients with four types of Sasang constitutions in their clinical practice and some types of Sasang constitutions have been regarded as risk factors of stroke, but this is uncertain because there were no evidences by large scale of prospective studies. The purpose of this was to study the association between strokes and Sasang constitutions. Case-control study has been conducted to the patients admitted to the research hospitals. The patients were confirmed stroke by brain MRI or CT scans and recruited from May 2003 to August 2005. The subjects who met the requirement of inclusion and exclusion criteria were 108 patients as the cases and 107 as healthy controls. Data collection has been performed by the trained specialists majoring neurologists through interviews, physical examinations, and laboratory testes. No statistical significance was obtained between the strokes and Sasang constitutions, yet Taeumin, and Soyangin types showed a trend of increase in the incidence of strokes as compared with Soeumin. To acquire more concrete data on this theme, we need further and large scale of prospective researches.
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KEYWORD
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Stroke, Sasang Constitution, Case-control study, Korean
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