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OBJECTIVE@#To analyze the correlation of serum progesterone (PROG) level with blood biochemical parameters and common traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes in male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).@*METHODS@#We collected the clinical data of 192 male patients with T2DM, who were admitted in the Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medical Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine between January, 2018 and March, 2019. The general clinical data, C-peptide level, blood glucose level, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), HOMA, blood lipid level, and sex hormones were compared between the patients with normal PROG and elevated PROG levels and also between the patients with two common TCM syndromes, namely and deficiency syndrome and damp- heat accumulation in the spleen syndrome. We further compared the sex hormones, C-peptide level, HOMA, HbA1c, and blood glucose level among the patients with the two TCM syndromes having normal or elevated PROG levels.@*RESULTS@#Compared with those in patients with normal PROG level, BMI, C-peptide, HOMA-β, and HOMA2-IR were significantly lowered and HOMA-IS, E2, and T were significantly increased in patients with elevated PROG level; no statistical differences were found in age, disease duration, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), smoking history, blood pressure, blood glucose, blood lipids, HbA1c, LH, FSH or PRL between the two groups. Compared with the patients with damp-heat accumulation syndrome group, the patients with and deficiency syndrome were older and had a longer disease duration, a greater BMI, and higher levels of PROG, C-Peptide, HOMA-β, HOMA2-IR and HOMA-IS, but the smoking history, WHR, HbA1c, blood glucose, and sex hormone levels were comparable between the two groups. Among the 4 groups of patients with different PROG levels and TCM syndromes, significant differences were found in the levels of C-peptide, HOMA-β, HOMA-IS, HOMA2-IR, PROG, E2, T, LH and FSH, and the patients with and deficiency syndrome as well as an elevated PROG level had the lowest C-peptide level, HOMA-β and HOMA2-IR and the highest HOMA-IS, PROG, E2, T, LH and FSH.@*CONCLUSIONS@#An elevated PROG level is closely related to islet cell dysfunction and TCM syndrome types in male patients with T2DM.
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Humans , Male , Blood Glucose , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 , Blood , Therapeutics , Medicine, Chinese Traditional , Progesterone , Syndrome , Yin DeficiencyABSTRACT
Objective To study the mechanism of different forms of ST-segment elevation in acute myocardial infarction(AMI),and to investigate the distribution of its traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)syndrome types.Methods Two hundred and twelve hospitalized AMI patients with ST-segment elevation from March of 2015 to July of 2017 were divided into group A and group B.Group A had 102 cases with the elevation of concavity of STsegment,and group B had 110 cases with the elevation of arch of ST-segment.The correlation of ST-segment elevation in different forms with TCM syndrome types was analyzed.Results (1) Patients of group B were usually male,young and middle-aged,with or without short-term medical history of coronary heart disease,and coronary angiography results indicated the stenosis or occlusion of the vessels without collateral circulation.Patients in group A were usually female,aged,with medical history of coronary heart disease,and coronary angiography results indicated the existence of collateral circulation.(2) Group A was dominated by Qi-deficiency and blood-stasis syndrome,and the frequency of its syndrome types was in decreasing sequence:Qi-deficiency and blood-stasis syndrome,Qi-yin deficiency syndrome,heat-toxicity and blood-stasis syndrome,phlegm blended with bloodstasis syndrome,syndrome of cold stagnation in heart vessels.Group B was dominated by heat-toxicity and bloodstasis syndrome,and the frequency of its syndrome types was in decreasing sequence:heat-toxicity and bloodstasis syndrome,Qi-deficiency and blood-stasis syndrome,Qi-yin deficiency syndrome,syndrome of cold stagnation in heart vessels,phlegm blended with blood-stasis syndrome.The difference of the distribution of syndrome types was significant between the two groups (P ＜ 0.01).(3) In respect of the differentiation of deficiency and excess syndromes,group A was dominated by deficiency interweaved with excess syndrome,while group B was dominated by excess syndrome.The difference of the distribution of deficiency and excess syndrome was significant between the two groups (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion AMI patients with different forms of ST-segment elevation have different TCM syndrome types.The investigation results will provide a new vision for the clinical trial of AMI treated with Chinese medicine integrated with western medicine,and will supply evidence for the syndrome differentiation and treatment of AMI patients with different forms of ST-segment elevation,which will contribute to enhancing clinical efficacy,saving life and improving prognosis.
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Objective To investigate the correlation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome types of chronic gastritis with Helicobacter pylori (Hp) eradication rate after anti-Hp treatment. Methods A total of 180 chronic gastritis patients with Hp infection were differentiated into spleen-stomach insufficiency syndrome, spleen-stomach dampness-heat syndrome, and liver depression and qi stagnation syndrome, and each syndrome group had 60 cases. Patients in each group were evenly divided into two subtypes, and were treated with triple therapy or quadruple therapy for 10 days respectively. After treatment, the Hp eradication rate in each group was compared. Results (1) The overall Hp eradication rate was 78.3%. No matter after triple therapy or quadruple therapy, patients with spleen-stomach insufficiency syndrome had the lowest Hp eradication rate (61.7%), which was lower than that of the patients with spleen-stomach damp-heat syndrome (88.3%) and the patients with liver depression and qi stagnation syndrome (85.0%), the difference being statistical significance (P 0.05). (2) A total of 10 cases had adverse reaction such as nausea and vomiting, stomachache, and gastric distention, 8 cases from spleen-stomach insufficiency group, one from spleen-stomach dampness-heat group, and one from liver depression and qi stagnation group. Spleen-stomach insufficiency group had higher incidence of adverse reaction than the other two groups (P < 0.05). Conclusion The Hp eradication rate after anti-Hp treatment varied in chronic gastritis patients with different TCM syndrome types, and the rate in patients with spleen-stomach insufficiency syndrome was lower than that of the patients with spleen-stomach damp-heat syndrome and the patients with liver depression and qi stagnation syndrome no matter after triple therapy or quadruple therapy.
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Objective To investigate traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiations and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in the young and middle-aged type 2 diabetic patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HF-PEF), and to evaluate the correlations between them.Methods 235 out- and hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes from Department of Cardiology of Affiliated Fuzhou Second Hospital of Xiamen University were enrolled. They were divided into HF-PEF group (120 cases) and non-HF-PEF (HF-NPEF) group (115 cases) according to the diastolic function results of echocardiography. In the HF-PEF group, according to the TCM differentiation of syndromes, the patients were subdivided into four types: heart Qi and Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency of heart and kidney, Qi deficiency and blood stasis and edema syndrome due to Yang deficiency syndromes. The HbA1c levels of different TCM syndromes in HF-PEF and HF-NPEF groups were determined by high performance liquid chromatography. The patients of HF-PEF were further divided into two groups according to serum HbA1c levels > 7.0% or ≤ 7.0%, and the relationships between different serum HbA1c levels and different severity of TCM syndrome types of patients with HF-PEF were compared.Results The level of serum HbA1c in HF-PEF group was significantly higher than that in HF-NPEF group in patients with type 2 diabetes [(7.02±0.74)% vs. (6.79±0.91)%,P 0.05], while the HbA1c levels of Qi deficiency and blood stasis and edema syndrome due to Yang deficiency syndromes were significantly higher than those of heart Qi and Yin deficiency and Yang deficiency of heart and kidney types [(7.15±0.70)%, (7.55±0.62)% vs. (6.70±0.66)%, (6.70±0.68)%], and the HbA1c levels of edema syndrome due to Yang Deficiency was obviously higher than that of Qi deficiency and blood stasis (P 7.0%, the incidence rate of Qi deficiency and blood stasis and edema syndrome due to Yang Deficiency types was higher than that of the group of HbA1c ≤ 7.0% [61.97% (44/71) vs. 38.78% (19/49),P 7.0% (r = 0.683,P < 0.05).Conclusion Clinically using serum HbA1c level to assess the prognosis of HF-PEF has obtained consistent results, and the level is positively correlated to the development of TCM syndrome types in young and middle-aged HF-PEF patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Objective To investigate the correlation of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as well as serum levels of NT-proBNP, Hcy and D-Dimer (D-D) with different traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome types of chronic heart failure (CHF). Methods A total of 178 CHF patients were divided into heart function normal ejection fracture group (HF?NEF, n=86) and heart function reduction (HFREF, n=92) according to their LVEF performance. Another 35 cases with nor?mal cardiac function were included in control group. All CHF patients was also divided into 3 TCM syndrome types:both de?ficiency of Qi and Yin syndrome group(n=64),Qi asthenia causing blood stasis syndrome group(n=59) andYang defi?ciency water stop group (n=55). All patients were examined with cardiac color doppler and LVEF values were recorded. And serum NT-proBNP、Hcyand D-D levels were all quantified. Results As to serum levels of NT-proBNP, Hcy and D-D, they were higher in HFREF group than those in HFNEF group than those in control group. On the other hand, LVEF was lowest in HFREF group but highest in control group. All differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). Among patient in HFNEF group, LVEF in theYang deficiency water stop groupwas lower than that inboth deficiency of Qi and Yin syn?drome group(P<0.05). Serum levels of NT-proBNP, Hcy, and D-D were not significantly different between different TCM syndrome groups. By contrast, among patients in HFREF group, LVEF values did not differ significantly between different TCM syndrome groups. Serum level of NT-proBNP was lower inboth deficiency of Qi and Yin syndrome groupthan that inQi asthenia causing blood stasis syndrome group than that in Yang deficiency water stop group. As to serum levels of Hcy and D-D, they are higher inYang deficiency water stop groupthat those inboth deficiency of Qi and Yin syndrome group and Qi asthenia causing blood stasis syndrome group(P<0.05). Conclusion Patients with different TCM syn?drome types of CHF present different levels of serum NT-proBNP, Hcy, D-D level and LVEF. Changes of indicators in HFREF groups are more obvious than they did in HFNEF group.
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@#Objective To observe effects of acupuncture on different traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) syndrome types in patients with apoplectic hemiplegia.Methods 57 cases of apoplectic hemiplegia were divided into the Qi deficiency with blood stagnation group(35 cases) and blockage of the meridians and collaterals by phlegm and blood group(22 cases).All patients were treated by scalp acupuncture combined with body acupuncture.The clinical therapeutic effect was evaluated according to the scores of manner,speech,motor function of limbs,and so on.Results In the Qi deficiency and blood stagnation group,2 cases were basically cured,17 were remarkably effective,12 were effective,with a total effective rate of 88.6%;while,in the blockage of the meridians and collaterals by phlegm and blood group,3 cases were basically cured,14 were remarkably effective,3 were effective,with a total effective rate of 90.9%.There was a significant difference between the two groups in clinical remarkably effective rate(P<0.01),but no difference in total effective rate( P>0.05).Conclusion Acupuncture can obviously improve the consciousness,language and limb function of patients with apoplectic hemiplegia.The effective rate of type of blockage of the meridians and collaterals by phlegm and blood is superior to type of Qi deficiency with blood stagnation.