[PDF] Top 20 Characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine use in children with asthma: a nationwide population-based study.

... age of 18. Children without asthma (N =162,826) were excluded, limiting the subjects to asthmatic (ICD-9-CM code: 493) patients ...only. Children diagnosed with asthma before the ... See full document

... Our study had several limitations. First, the rates of TCM utilization might have been underestimated because we did not include TCM treatments that were not covered by the National Health Insurance (NHI), ... See full document

... 40.7% of the RA patients used TCM service for more than 6 times, which might be due to the confidence in symptoms relief or effectiveness perceived by ...not a disease merely affecting joints. There ... See full document

... published in the meeting abstract ...acknowledgement with no more than 2 tables / graphs / figures. 8. Submission of abstracts does NOT constitute registration for the ... See full document

... risk of mortality. Treatment with radiotherapy and systemic therapy was shown to cause the greatest risk for ...treated with surgery and adjuvant therapy also had higher risks of ...most ... See full document

... This nationwide population-based study investigated the utilization of Chinese herbal products prescribed by licensed TCM doctors for patients who were newly diagnosed ... See full document

... evidence of the different stroke risk in dermatitis patients treated with systemic corticosteroid or TCM remains ...This study identified 235,220 dermatitis patients and same ... See full document

... increased from 2000 to 2011, whereas the annual incidence fluctuated and showed an overall descending trend. TCM use by adults with asthma was common, but its annual trend had decreased. Appropriate ... See full document

... A nationwide study conducted in the ...most of the study subjects used alternative therapies in conjunction with conventional medicine; only a few ... See full document

... Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative ...Xiao, A., Li, X., Cai, Y., 2005. The therapeutic effects of Ling-Gui-Zhu-Gan-Tang mixture in 50 ... See full document

... [35]. In addition, the association between high SES and TCM use was also found in cancer patients in Taiwan ...associated with TCM use among Caucasian adults in Taiwan ... See full document

... conflicts of interest to disclose. a Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, b Department of ... See full document

... Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is widely used in ...acupuncture/moxibustion, Chinese traumatology therapy, and Chinese herbal remedies, which can accelerate the bone healing ... See full document

... Associated with the Use of Pain Management-Related Medications among the Non-Cancer Elderly Patients Ever Utilized Traditional Chinese Medicine Services: A Retrospective ... See full document

... This study is the first nationwide population-based survey of the utilization and core pattern analysis of CHM with Sjögren's syndrome patients with catastrophic ... See full document

... development of atopic ...levels in patients with asthma, 14-16 as well as increased expression of IL-1 b on the asthmatic bronchial epithelium, 17,18 indicating that these cytokines ... See full document

... syndrome in asthma Funding Source: The study was supported in part by China Medical University Hospital (DMR-103-036), Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Clinical Trial and Research ... See full document

... distribution of diagnoses by age in our study, we found that for patients over the age of 20, conditions of major organ systems such as the muscu- loskeletal, nervous, circulatory and ... See full document

... users in this study, which were extracted from a population-based database from 1996 to 2010, found that CM users in fibroid patients were more likely to be younger and white ... See full document

... Objectives Asthma, a chronic inflammatory condition of the airways, is one of the most common chronic disorders in ...number of individuals with asthma has ... See full document