A Study on the Diagnostic Elements of Cold-Heat Pattern Identification by Korean Medicine Doctors: Association with Objective and Subjective Body Temperature

Table 4

Ordered logit model estimation results for association between the Cold- or Heat-prescription group and ordinary symptoms.

Type of questionnaire	Ordinary symptom	HG	OR	Males	OR	TE type	OR	SY type	OR
		B (95% CI)		B (95% CI)		B (95% CI)		B (95% CI)
Expert	Subjective body temperature	0.52 (0.17~0.87)	1.68	1.25 (0.91~1.60)	3.51	0.92 (0.46~1.38)	2.51	0.99 (0.50~1.47)	2.68
	Sensitivity to cold	−0.29 (−0.61~0.04)	0.75	−1.06 (−1.40~−0.73)	0.35	−0.85 (−1.26~−0.43)	0.43	−0.75 (−1.17~−0.33)	0.47
	Sensitivity to heat	0.09 (−0.23~0.42)	1.10	−0.27 (−0.59~0.06)	0.77	0.36 (−0.05~0.77)	1.43	0.39 (−0.02~0.81)	1.48
	Digestive ability	0.65 (0.32~0.98)	1.91	0.77 (0.44~1.10)	2.17	0.47 (0.05~0.88)	1.59	0.64 (0.22~1.06)	1.89
	Appetite	0.23 (−0.10~0.56)	1.26	0.65 (0.32~0.98)	1.92	0.51 (0.09~0.92)	1.66	0.37 (−0.04~0.79)	1.45
Patient	Warmness in hands	0.36 (0.01~0.71)	1.44	1.01 (0.66~1.37)	2.76	0.97 (0.52~1.43)	2.65	0.99 (0.53~1.45)	2.69
	Warmness in feet	0.29 (−0.07~0.65)	1.34	1.21 (0.85~1.57)	3.36	0.68 (0.21~1.15)	1.98	0.75 (0.27~1.23)	2.11
	Warmness in abdomen	0.22 (−0.14~0.58)	1.25	0.98 (0.61~1.34)	2.66	0.14 (−0.31~0.59)	1.15	0.11 (−0.35~0.57)	1.12
	Digestive ability	0.52 (0.16~0.88)	1.69	0.28 (−0.08~0.64)	1.32	−0.07 (−0.53~0.38)	0.93	0.06 (−0.39~0.52)	1.07
	Appetite	0.27 (−0.10~0.64)	1.31	0.33 (−0.05~0.71)	1.39	0.87 (0.41~1.33)	2.39	0.52 (0.06~0.97)	1.68
	Food portion	0.14 (−0.22~0.50)	1.15	0.29 (−0.07~0.65)	1.34	0.93 (0.47~1.39)	2.53	0.66 (0.19~1.12)	1.93
	Eating pace	0.05 (−0.31~0.40)	1.05	0.44 (0.08~0.81)	1.56	1.03 (0.58~1.47)	2.79	1.01 (0.56~1.46)	2.73

Base category: CG, females, SE type; ; , .