Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis “Yang-Xu Zheng”: Significant Prognostic Predictor for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Table 4

Frequency of each TCM Zheng between the survivors and nonsurvivors.

TCM 𝑍ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑔^a	Survivor; (𝑛=71)	Nonsurvivor; (𝑛=55)	𝑃 value
Pathogen-excess type
Qi-phase heat	27 (38.0%)	20 (36.4%)	NS
Nutrient-phase heat	23 (32.4%)	28 (50.9%)	0.04
Blood-phase heat	22 (31.0%)	23 (41.8%)	NS
Human body-deficiency type
Qi-Xu	41 (57.7%)	45 (81.8%)	<0.01
Yang-Xu	23 (32.4%)	42 (76.4%)	<0.01
Blood-Xu	5 (7.0%)	3 (5.5%)	NS^b
Yin-Xu	5 (7.0%)	1 (1.8%)	NS^b

Categorical data are presented as number of patients (percentages).
Values have been calculated using Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test and Chi-square test.
^aValues total more than 100%, since patients could have more than one condition.
^bCalculated using Fisher’s exact test.
𝑃<0.05 being statistically significant.
NS: not significant.