Gender- and age-dependent tongue features in a community-based population

Gender- and age-dependent tongue features in a community-based population

This study, an important groundwork for clinical tongue diagnosis and future traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) research, tested the hypothesis that some tongue features vary significantly between different gender and age groups by utilizing an automatic tongue diagnosis system (ATDS).A cross-sectio...

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Veröffentlicht in:Medicine (Baltimore) 2019-12, Vol.98 (51), p.e18350-e18350
Hauptverfasser: Hsu, Po-Chi, Wu, Han-Kuei, Huang, Yu-Chuen, Chang, Hen-Hong, Chen, Yi-Ping, Chiang, John Y, Lo, Lun-Chien
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Middle Aged
Observational Study
Sex Characteristics
Taiwan
Tongue - anatomy & histology
Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:This study, an important groundwork for clinical tongue diagnosis and future traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) research, tested the hypothesis that some tongue features vary significantly between different gender and age groups by utilizing an automatic tongue diagnosis system (ATDS).A cross-sectional study of 1487 participants from a community-based population was performed. Study subjects with ages ranging from 20 to 92 were categorized into 3 groups:
ISSN:0025-7974
1536-5964
DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000018350