A Study On Lifestyle Features Among People Of Yang-deficiency Constitution And Correlation Between Them

BackgroundWith the rapid development of modern society, people's lifestyle has changed a lot; the impact of lifestyle on health is also growing. By the study, pathogenesis, development and prognosis of sub-health state, many types of chronic diseases, malignant tumors, etc., are closely related with lifestyle. Therefore, it has put forward some ideas about prevention and treatment "lifestyle disease". At present the research on intervention effect of lifestyle has widely developed at home and abroad, and it has achieved some results. So research on lifestyle has gradually been become a focus of modern medical research.Constitution of Chinese Medicine is the subject that studies on individual constitution and health. Constitution is gifted with inborn factors and acquired factors. As an acquired factor, lifestyle is closely related with the formation, development and outcome of constitution. Yang-deficiency constitution is a common constitution type. Through long-term clinical observation, my mentor Professor Yang Zhi-min has preliminary concluded that most people of yang-deficiency constitution don't realize that lifestyle especially previous lifestyle is an important influencing factor on constitution, resulting in yang-deficiency constitution is difficult to improve radically or easy to form. Ancient Chinese literature and modern literature have discussed the correlation between lifestyle and yang-deficiency constitution, but it's still a lack of systematic understanding, research and summarization of lifestyle for the yang-deficiency constitution group. ObjectiveThis study is an exploratory study, through surveys on lifestyle of groups of yang-deficiency, summarized the features of daily lifestyle and previous lifestyle among people of yang-deficiency constitution, discussed previous lifestyle factors on the impact of yang-deficiency constitution, in order to establish the way of life for people of yang-deficiency mentoring program provides a theoretical basis. MethodTo outpatient and community groups for the study, using field survey methods, a total of 135 cases included in the effective cases, published by Professor Wang Qi 2005 the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (CCMQ) (60) to determine constitution, collected information by《Lifestyle questionnaire》which is produced by myself. And then established a database and analyzed it by SPSS13.0 statistical software after data collection, using the methods of descriptive statistics, differences between groups constitute more X 2 test, logistic regression analysis method. ResultsThis study investigated 135 cases of completed cases, with Yang-deficiency constitution and constitution folder 89 cases,46 cases of non-yang-deficiency constitution. Compared demographic data of the two groups by X 2 test, the results suggested that two groups were statistically significant different in sex composition.1. Features of daily lifestyle:Compared daily lifestyle structure of yang-deficiency constitution groups and non-yang-deficiency constitution groups, analyzed it by X 2 test. The results suggested that two groups were different in the living environment, movement, exercise intensity, smoking, alcohol consumption, alcohol consumption, work and study environment, the use of infusion and antibiotics, and the differences were significant (P<0.05), the remaining differences were not statistically significant comparison (P>0.05).2. Features of previous lifestyle:Compared previous lifestyle structure of yang-deficiency constitution groups and non-yang-deficiency constitution groups, analyzed it by X 2 test. The results suggested that two groups were different in staying up late, using infusion or antibiotics, and the differences are significant (P<0.05), the remaining differences were not statistically significant comparison (P>0.05).3. Related factors of previous lifestyle:X 2 test was used in the single factor analysis of previous lifestyle, then screened out the significant independent variables, analyzed them by logistic regression.The results suggested that staying up late frequently in the past was significant (P<0.05), OR values>2. ConclusionThis study analyzed the lifestyle features among people of yang-deficiency constitution, and explored the associated past-lifestyle factors. Through the survey research, the study concluded, life-styles of people who had yang-deficiency condition caused by their condition state with symptoms such as fatigue, cold, low mood, and they were easier to be sick. So they avoided the cold home environment, reduce movement and alcohol, used infusion or antibiotics more frequently. But the percentage of population of yang-deficiency constitutions who were in the cold work environment or study in cold is higher than the non-yang-deficiency constitution group. The two groups were different in past way of life; the percentage of population of yang-deficiency constitution who were staying up late, using infusion or antibiotics frequently was higher than the non-yang-deficiency constitution group. Through regression analysis, results suggested that always staying up late and yang yang-deficiency constitution was associated, and often staying up late may be a risk factor of yang-deficiency constitution.