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1、HindawiPublishingCorporationEvidence-BasedComplementaryandAlternativeMedicineVolume2012,ArticleID480715,9pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/480715ResearchArticleTraditionalChineseMedicineZHENGIdentificationProvidesaNovelStratificationApproachinPatientswithAllergicRhinitisKai-LiLiang,1,2R
2、ong-SanJiang,1,2Chia-LinLee,3Pei-JungChiang,4,5Jui-ShanLin,5andYi-ChangSu51DepartmentofOtolaryngology,TaichungVeteransGeneralHospital,Taichung40705,Taiwan2SchoolofMedicine,ChungShanMedicalUniversity,Taichung40201,Taiwan3DepartmentofEndocrinologyandMetabolism,TaichungVetera
3、nsGeneralHospital,Taichung40705,Taiwan4DepartmentofTraditionalChineseMedicine,TaichungVeteransGeneralHospital,Taichung40705,Taiwan5GraduateInstituteofChineseMedicine,CollegeofChineseMedicine,ChinaMedicalUniversity,Taichung40421,TaiwanCorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoYi-Cha
4、ngSu,juishan.lin@msa.hinet.netReceived13January2012;Revised4April2012;Accepted6April2012AcademicEditor:Shi-BingSuCopyright©2012Kai-LiLiangetal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproduc
5、tioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited.Background.WeaimedtoapplytheZHENGidentificationtoprovideaneasyandusefultooltostratifythepatientswithallergicrhinitis(AR)throughexploringthecorrelationbetweenthequantifiedscoresofARsymptomsandtheTCMZHENGs.Methods.Atotalof
6、114ARpatientswereenrolledinthisobservationalstudy.Allparticipantsreceivedtheexaminationsofanteriorrhinoscopyandacousticrhinometry.TheirbloodsampleswerecollectedformeasurementoftotalserumimmunoglobulinE(IgE),bloodeosinophilcount(Eos),andserumeosinophilcationicprotein(ECP).T
7、heyalsoreceivedtwoquestionnairetoassesstheseverityscoresofARsymptomsandquantifiedTCMZHENGscores.MultiplelinearregressionanalysiswasusedtodetermineexplanatoryfactorsforthescoreofARmanifestations.Results.IgEandECPlevel,durationofAR,the2derivedTCMZHENGscoresof“Yin-Xu−Yang-Xu”,
8、and“Qi-Xu+Blood-Xu”were5explanatoryvariablestopredicttheseverityscoresofARsymptoms.Thepat
