Study on the distribution characteristics of Hyperthyroidism's syndrome / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To Analyze the distribution characteristics of Hyperthyroidism's syndrome and the relationship between symptoms and thyroid hormones. Methods The TCM syndromes of a total of 78 patients with hyperthyroidism were differentiated. The relationship between syndrome and general condition of patients (gender and age, etc.) were analyzed;correlation between symptoms and thyroid hormones were also studied. Results Of all 78 patients, patients with yin deficiency and hyperactive yang accounted for 43.6%; patients with internal disturbance of phlegm-fire accounted for 30.8 %; and patients with hypteracitivity of heart-fire and liver-fire accounted for 25.6%. The severity of all the symptoms showed positive correlation with hyroid hormones (the value of r is positive, P＜0.05); and no linear relationship with TSH (P＞0.05).Conclusion The syndrome of yin deficiency and hyperactive yangI was the most common syndrome type. Thyroid hormones had direct proportion with the severity of syndrome.