An Investigation and Analysis on Constitution Identification for Elderly Population over 65 Years Old
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_212How to use a DOI?
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- TCM; Elderly Population; Constitution Identification; Investigation
- Abstract
To provide theoretical basis for the prevention and health care of the elderly with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), 752 elderly people over 65 years old in a university community in Wuhan were investigated with the question form of TCM constitution combined with the judgments of the TCM doctors, then the results of constitution identification are analyzed. The elderly are more common with mixed constitutions accounting for 60.64%. Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency and blood stasis are the top three types of based constitution. As age increases, the ratio of normal constitution decreases, the ratio of biased constitution increases, and gradually tends to be deficient. It can be concluded that prevention and intervention programs targeted health guidance should be provided for different constitutions in the elderly, and an integrated health care strategy of Chinese and Western medicine should be adopted to improve their health status.
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TY - CONF AU - Yun Jia AU - Yifeng Zhang PY - 2023 DA - 2023/10/31 TI - An Investigation and Analysis on Constitution Identification for Elderly Population over 65 Years Old BT - Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1859 EP - 1864 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_212 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_212 ID - Jia2023 ER -