Investigating the Relationship Between Body Constitution as Defined Under Traditional Chinese Medicine and Vertigo in Women in Taiwan.
Pei-Ling Tang, Hsueh-Chih Chou, Miao-Ling Lin and 2 others
PMID 41504513WHAT IT FOUND
Higher Traditional Chinese Medicine body constitution scores for Yang-Xu, Yin-Xu and Phlegm stasis were associated with a higher chance of self-reported vertigo in women.
Age, migraine and endometrial polyps were also associated. This does not prove treatment.
Key findings
01Higher Traditional Chinese Medicine body constitution scores for Yang-Xu, Yin-Xu and Phlegm stasis were each associated with higher adjusted odds of self-reported vertigo.
02Older age, migraine and endometrial polyps were associated with higher adjusted odds of vertigo.
03128 of 1,423 women had self-reported vertigo.
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What it does not show
Vertigo was self-reported and vertigo types and diagnostic details were not distinguished. The cross-sectional design cannot show that body constitution caused vertigo or that any treatment would help. Only 128 women had vertigo, so the estimates for constitution scores may be unstable. The Body Constitution Questionnaire classifies mixed and balanced types but cannot assess severity. The sample excluded men and women with BMI below 18.5 kg/m2, so it does not represent all adults.
Declared interests
Funding was provided by Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. No other conflict statement is supplied.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that treating Yang-Xu, Yin-Xu or Phlegm stasis prevents or cures vertigo. The study only found associations between questionnaire scores and self-reported vertigo, did not distinguish vertigo types and cannot show cause.