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

Table 4

The median and interquartile range values for variables of time and frequency domain between MetS and nMetS groups.

	Metabolic syndrome						value
	No			Yes
		Median	IQR		Median	IQR
(ms^2/Hz)	50	6.2	5.7–6.8	43	6.2	5.6–7.0	0.697
(ms^2/Hz)	50	5.5	5.0–6.4	43	5.5	4.8–6.3	0.951
(ms^2/Hz)	50	5.4	4.6–5.9	43	5.3	4.5–6.0	0.844
LF/HF	50	1.0	0.9–1.1	43	1.0	0.9–1.2	0.655

value using Mann-Whitney test.
VLF: very low frequency, HF: high frequency, LF: low frequency, and IQR: interquartile range.