Research Article
The Relationships between Leptin, Genotype, and Chinese Medicine Body Constitution for Obesity
Table 2
Baseline characteristics of enrolled obese patients (from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2019, n = 50).
| | Parameters | Subject number (%) |
| | Demographic features | | Gender | | Female | 37 (74.0) | | Male | 13 (26.0) | | Age (years), mean (SD) | 37.0 (9.6) | | BMI, mean (SD) | 31.1 (3.2) | | Waist-hip ratio (WHR), mean (SD) | 0.9 (0.1) | | Waist-height ratio (WheR), mean (SD) | 0.6 (0.0) | | Appetite | | Poor | 2 (4.0) | | Fair | 43 (86.0) | | Good | 5 (10.0) | | Food preference | | Icy food | 12 (24.0) | | Deep-fried food | 10 (20.0) | | Smoking | 3 (6.0) | | Alcohol consumption | 25 (50.0) | | Betel nuts chewing | 0 (0) | | Exercise ≥30 mins/week | 40 (80.0) | | Comorbidities | | Hyperlipidemia | 2 (4.0) | | Hypertension | 8 (16.0) | | Diabetes mellitus | 2 (4.0) | | Stroke | 0 (0) | | Myocardial infarction | 0 (0) | | Allergic rhinitis | 10 (20.0) | | Polycystic ovarian syndrome | 1 (2.0) | | The tendency of TCM body constitution (TCMBC) | | Yang deficiency constitution (YangDC) | 29 (58.0) | | Yin deficiency constitution (YinDC) | 33 (66.0) | | Phlegm-stasis constitution (PSC) | 29 (58.0) | | TCMBC in combinations | | 0 | 11 (22.0) | | 1 | 9 (18.0) | | 2 | 8 (16.0) | | 3 | 22 (44.0) |
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