Guangxi TCM Syndrome Rheumatoid Arthritis Distribution.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Guangxi TCM Syndrome Rheumatoid Arthritis Distribution Authors: XIE, XIAO Jing, Shi Wei, Zhang Lijun, Chen Xiu [Abstract] Objective To investigate the Guangxi region, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) distribution pattern of TCM syndromes. Method from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical College received 106 cases of patients with RA, using SPSS (10.0) the establishment of databases and statistical study the TCM in age, gender, disease duration, age at onset, clinical symptoms of arthritis, rheumatoid factor (RF), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), IgA, IgG, IgM, etc. distribution. The results of different syndromes RA in terms of age, there are differences on the course of the disease. TCM gender, clinical symptoms of arthritis and related laboratory indicators no significant difference. Conclusion Guangxi RA resistance syndrome in order to humid most common network. In the course of the disease, the liver and kidney the longest course of the disease. RA patients with younger persons is manifested mainly damp-heat syndrome resistance network, cold dampness, and cold and heat resistance heterogeneous network card; elderly with phlegm silt blocking the main network, and liver and kidney. [Keywords:] rheumatoid arthritis, TCM Epidemiology Rheumatoid arthritis (Rheumatioid Arthritis, referred to as RA) is a mainly involving the peripheral joints of multi-systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by the symmetry of symptoms, peripheral joints many chronic degenerative conditions, clinical manifestations of joint involvement swelling, pain, functional decline, disease was sustained, repeated attack the process. Pathological chronic synovitis, invasion, and the underlying cartilage and bone, causing joint destruction. The disease is a traditional Chinese medicine’s ‘Arthralgia - costumes, white tiger,’’Bi’’calendar calendar’s Day Festival’ and other areas. The disease etiology is unclear, Wester