Relationship between Common TCM Syndromes of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Correlative Indicators

Objective To explore the TCM syndromes distribution rule about diabetic peripheral neuropathy(DPN),and to retrospectively study the relationship between common TCM syndromes of DPN and correlative indicators.Methods Total of 147 cases of inpatients with DPN from Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the recent year were divided into 5 syndromes:deficiency of both qi and yin,qi deficiency and blood stasis,yin deficiency and blood stasis,yang deficiency and blood stasis,phlegm and blood stasis.Their correlative indicators including age,BMI,course of diabetes,HbA1c,C-reactive protein(CRP) were recorded,and the correlationship was analyzed.Results The number of yang deficiency and blood stasis syndrome was the largest in the 147 cases of collected DPN patients,but there was no statistical significance compared with other syndromes(P0.05).The patients of yin deficiency and blood stasis syndrome were the youngest,the differences were significant compared with other four syndromes(P0.01,P0.05).It was obvious that the course of phlegm and blood stasis syndrome was longer than the course of qi and yin deficiency syndrome(P0.05),and the level of BMI was higher than any other syndrome(P0.01,P0.05).The level of HbA1c of yin asthenia and blood stasis syndrome was lower than any other syndrome(P0.05).There were no significant differences in the level of CRP among different syndromes(P0.05).Conclusion Yin deficiency and blood stasis syndrome is the main clinical TCM syndrome of younger DPN patients,and its level of HbA1c was lower.The course of diabetes of phlegm and blood stasis syndrome was longer than that of qi and yin deficiency syndrome,and its level of BMI was higher.