Background With an increasing awareness of people's satisfaction and feeling, health-
related quality of life (HRQoL) has become an essential aspect of measuring health. HRQoL …

Introduction: Assessing an individual's level of Yang deficiency (Yang-Xu) by its
manifestations is a frequent issue in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical trials. To …

Summary Background The Body Constitution Questionnaire (BCQ) was developed in
Taiwan to classify people into body constitution (BC) types based on Traditional Chinese …

Aims Type 2 diabetes is becoming more prevalent in Taiwan. Growing evidence suggests a
patient‐centred approach is more effective in facilitating self‐management than a …

Is culture relevant to the study of health and illness? Almost with one voice, sociologists and
anthropologists agree that it is. Such a consensus is exceptional in these disciplines, both of …

Background China has reduced incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases through its
Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Vaccines outside of the EPI are not provided for …

This paper described and discussed the important literature and ideas about the concepts,
types and measurement of body constitution, in terms of healthy, sub-healthy and disease …

Microarrays are widely used to study changes in gene expression in diseases. In this paper,
we use this technology to discover gene expression patterns in the cold syndrome in …

健康促進是世界衛生組織積極推動的全球策略, 以達到人類均健的目標. 中醫學者認為個體體質
狀態影響健康, 體質偏虛增加個體對致病因子的易感性, 甚至影響疾病變化及治療反應 …

This study aimed to establish a method for fast and accurate determination of body
constitution types from the body constitution questionnaire (BCQ) by employing a decision …