Correlation between acne and Northwest dryness syndrome in Xinji- ang autonomous region of China

• Published in: 中医杂志：英文版 2013 (6), p.761-765
• Main Author: Yan Wang Xiaozhong Wang Haiyan Yuan Jing Jing Huaike Chen Xiaohong Ren Lili Zhang Huitian Zhang Mingxin Zhou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 中国; 典型相关系数; 流行病学; 痤疮; 综合征; 肺心病; 自治区; 西北
• ISSN: 0255-2922

OBJECTIVE： To analyze the correlation between ac- he and Northwest dryness syndrome in the Xinji- ang region to provide an epidemiological founda- tion for the prevention and treatment of acne in the region. METHODS： The correlations among acne, clinical syndromes of Northwest dryness syndrome, and Northwest dryness syndrome were evaluated using the syndrome fitness index and canonical correla- tion analysis. RESULTS： The ache group had a Northwest drynesssyndrome rate of 24.13%, and the control group 10.34% （χ2=7.733, P〈0.01）. There was no significant difference in the fitness index for acne and for the sub-syndromes of Northwest dryness syndrome （P〉 0.05）. The first canonical correlation coefficient was 0.5656 （P〈0.01）. The acne-dependent variable group had the largest damp-heat syndrome load （0.8709）, and the independent variable had the largest lung-heart-spleen pyretic dryness load （0.6766）. CONCLUSION： Northwest dryness syndrome is a risk factor for ache in the Xinjiang region. Exoge- nous dryness and endogenous damp are frequent- ly seen as subsyndromes in Northwest dryness syn- drome in acne patients in the region. Acne was cor- related with the damp-heat and lung-heart-spleen pyretic dryness sub-syndromes of Northwest dry- ness syndrome.