Study on the Quantitative Differentiation of Chinese Medical Syndrome of Chronic Renal Failure / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To differentiate Chinese medical syndromes of chronic renal Failure by objective laboratory indexes. Method Data of 312 cases were collected through a retrospective survey and these cases were divided into five Chinese medical syndromes according to an authorized criterion. Laboratory examination indexes of all syndromes were disposed with analysis of variance and discriminant analysis in turn. Result Discriminant functions of four syndromes were worked out and the accuracy of the functions was 60%. Conclusion Differentiation of Chinese medical syndromes should use modern techniques for reference on the base of traditional methods. And through it, a new way even a new system of diagnosis for Chinese medical syndromes in which traditional and modern methods are perfectly combined may be found out.