Role of Blood Stasis Syndrome of Kampo Medicine in the Early Pathogenic Stage of Atherosclerosis: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

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Participant selection. The patients were divided into the NBS group and BS syndrome group. Three patients were excluded from laboratory data analysis because we could not obtain informed consent. The variables found to be associated with the BS score were further tested by multiple logistic regression analysis to investigate the independent factors associated with FMD. To assess the ability of each variable to discriminate FMD, the areas under the ROC curves were calculated. NBS: non-blood stasis; BS: blood stasis; IGT: impaired glucose tolerance; DLP: dyslipidemia; FMD: flow-mediated dilation; ROC; receiver operating characteristic.