Traditional Chinese Medicine for Metabolic Syndrome via TCM Pattern Differentiation: Tongue Diagnosis for Predictor

Table 3

Tongue color and coating between MetS and nMetS groups.

	Metabolic syndrome					⁢Total ()		value
	Level	⁢No ()		⁢Yes ()
			%		%		%
Tongue coating	Thin white	8	16.3	6	13.6	14	15.1	0.002
	White	31	63.3	38	86.4	69	74.2
	Yellow	10	20.4	0	0.0	10	10.8
Tongue color	Pink	27	55.1	27	61.4	54	58.1	0.461
	Red	22	44.9	16	36.4	38	40.9
	Dark red	0	0.0	1	2.3	1	1.1

value using Fisher’s Exact Test.
Values given are number of patients (%).