Risk Factors for Excessive Sensitivity to Cold and Physical Characteristics:A Prospective Cohort Study / 日本東洋医学雑誌
Kampo Medicine
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: 609-614, 2011.
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in Japanese
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| ID: wpr-362647
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To determine risk factors for excessive sensitivity to cold (ESC) in relation to physical features.DESIGN:
A prospective cohort study carried out between July 7 and November 14,2008.PARTICIPANTS ANDMETHODS:
Seventy female junior college students with no ESC at baseline, and a median age of 20 years, participated. We used a numerical rating scale (NRS) to classify each ESC sensation over the five days in this July-November period.To confirm physical symptoms, we used Terasawa's diagnostic scores for ki, ketsu, and sui. We defined ESC as mean NRSgeq ≥ 5.RESULTS:
We documented 17 participants with ESC in November. The multivariate adjusted odds ratio for ESC was11.6 (95% CI 1.9 to 97.5) for the physical characteristic “edema”. Participants with ESC were shorter in stature than participants without ESC (-5.9cm ; 95% CI -8.6 to -3.1).CONCLUSION:
Participants with edema and short stature have a high risk for ESC.
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Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Etiology study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Language:
Japanese
Journal:
Kampo Medicine
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
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