Review Article
Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution Correlated with Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 2
Meta-analysis of other TCM constitutions’ distribution in IS and the general population.
| | TCM constitution | Event/total number | Heterogeneity test | OR | 95% CI | Z | | | IS population | General population | I2 (%) | |
| | Blood stasis constitution (BSC) | 93/620 | 105/3988 | 5 | 0.38 | 1.44 | 0.91–2.27 | 1.57 | 0.12 | | Yang-deficiency constitution (YADC) | 82/542 | 883/3910 | 79 | 0.002 | 1.29 | 0.56–3.00 | 0.60 | 0.55 | | Yin-deficiency constitution (YIDC) | 88/542 | 352/3910 | 41 | 0.17 | 1.19 | 0.69–2.05 | 0.63 | 0.53 | | Damp-heat constitution (DHC) | 75/542 | 1218/3910 | 66 | 0.03 | 0.87 | 0.39–1.92 | 0.35 | 0.73 | | Qi stagnation constitution (QSC) | 21/542 | 64/3910 | 16 | 0.31 | 1.01 | 0.42–2.42 | 0.01 | 0.99 | | Balance constitution (BC) | 110/542 | 1311/3910 | 95 | <0.00001 | 0.37 | 0.10–1.38 | 1.48 | 0.14 | | Inherited special constitution (ISC) | 3/420 | 85/3788 | 0 | 0.78 | 0.53 | 0.16–1.71 | 1.06 | 0.29 |
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