Clinical Approach to the Standardization of Oriental Medical Diagnostic Pattern Identification in Stroke Patients

Table 2

Demographic data of each pattern-identification.

	Fire heat	Phlegm dampness	Blood stasis	Qi deficiency	Yin deficiency
Total number	100	210	9	110	51
Age, yr	64.8±11.1	68.3±36.0	73.7±10.4	65.5±12.9	66.0±14.7
Gender, male	77 (77.0)	105 (50.)	5 (55.6)	46 (41.8)	21 (41.2)
BMI (kg/m^2)	24.2±2.6	24.7±2.9	22.6±2.2	22.8±2.8	22.5±3.2
W/H ratio	0.95±0.06	0.94±0.05	0.95±0.09	0.92±0.07	0.91±0.07
Ischemic stroke	82 (82.0)	190 (90.5)	8 (88.9)	91 (82.7)	42 (82.4)
TOAST*
LAA	13 (13.0)	37 (17.6)	1 (11.1)	13 (11.8)	6 (11.8)
CE	5 (5.0)	16 (7.6)	0	9 (8.2)	6 (11.8)
SVO	64 (64.0)	135 (64.3)	5 (55.6)	66 (60.0)	29 (56.9)
SOE	0	2 (1.0)	1 (11.1)	1 (0.9)	1 (2.0)
SUE	0	0	1 (11.1)	2 (1.8)	0
Medical history
Hypertension	55 (55.0)	150 (71.4)	5 (55.6)	64 (58.2)	24 (47.1)
Diabetic mellitus	24 (24.0)	73 (34.8)	3 (33.3)	23 (20.9)	11 (21.6)
Hyperlipidemia	7 (7.0)	45 (21.4)	0	17 (15.5)	3 (5.9)
Ischemic heart	7 (7.0)	18 (8.6)	1 (11.1)	11 (10.0)	8 (15.7)
Atrial fibrillation	10 (10.0)	13 (6.2)	1 (11.1)	7 (6.4)	6 (11.8)
Smoking	38 (38.0)	39 (18.6)	0	20 (18.2)	13 (25.5)

Values in parenthesis refer to %.
*TOAST classification includes LAA (large artery atherosclerosis), CE (cardiogenic embolism), SVO (small vessel occlusion), SOE (stroke of other determined etiology), and SUE (stroke of undetermined etiology).