ABSTRACT
This paper reports levels of serum lipids and traditional Chinese medicine typing in 472 cases of simple obesity. As compared with 186 healthy persons, serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and triglyceride (TG) were higher, while those of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and HDL/TC were lower, in female and male obesity groups. Serum levels of TC and TG were the highest but those of HDL and HDL/TC were the lowest in the spleen-asthenia and wetness-stagnation group according to traditional Chinese medicine typing, suggesting that the spleen and stomach based on traditional Chinese medicine have an important position in lipids metabolism, which opens a new way to research, prevent and treat obesity with combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.
