Paper Info
Title
Correlation between TCM inspection of facial color and pulmonary function of Bronchial Asthma
Abstract
To investigate the correlation between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) inspection of facial color and pulmonary function of Bronchial Asthma (BA), 162 patients with BA were divided into acute stage and catabasis. Data of pulmonary function, forced vital capacity (FVC), forced vital capacity in the first second (FEV1.0), maximum midexpiratory flow (MMEF) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) were collected by spirometer and correlated to patients' facial color index, red, white, black, yellow and bluish collected by TCM device for inspection of facial color. In acute exacerbation, FEV1.0/FVC and MMEF% were correlated to children patients' facial index of black and red correspondingly (P≤0.01). PEF% was correlated to adult patients' facial index of black and yellow (P<;0.01). During catabasis, FEV1.0% was correlated to children patients' facial index of yellow, black and white (P<;0.01). MMEF% was correlated to adult patients' facial index of red and white (P<;0.01). It was concluded that for BA patients there was correlation between pulmonary function and TCM inspection of facial color which may work as a significant reference for evaluation of clinical efficiency of BA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/BIBMW.2010.5703904
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
diseases,lung,medical diagnostic computing,patient diagnosis,physiology,pneumodynamics,FEV1.0/FVC,MMEF%,TCM inspection,Traditional Chinese Medicine,acute stage,bronchial asthma,catabasis,facial color index,forced vital capacity,forced vital capacity in the first second,maximum midexpiratory flow,patient diagnosis,peak expiratory flow,pulmonary function,Bronchial Asthma,Pulmonary Function,TCM inspection of facial color,correlation
Conference
978-1-4244-8304-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hung, C.Y.100.34
Zhao-Xia Xu202.03
Yiqin Wang35716.28
Fufeng Li4339.74