Traditional Chinese Medicine for Metabolic Syndrome via TCM Pattern Differentiation: Tongue Diagnosis for Predictor

Table 2

Council on nutrition appetite questionnaire analysis.

		Metabolic syndrome						value
		⁢No ()		⁢Yes ()		⁢Total ()
			%		%		%
() My appetite is	Very poor	2	4	0	0	2	2.1	<0.001
	Poor	0	0	1	2.2	1	1.1
	Average	11	22	38	84.4	49	51.6
	Good	21	42	5	11.1	26	27.4
	Very good	16	32	1	2.2	17	17.9
() When I eat, I feel full after	Eating only a few mouthfuls	0	0	3	6.7	3	3.2	<0.001
	Eating about a third of a plate/meal	1	2	2	4.4	3	3.2
	Eating over half of a plate/meal	7	14	21	46.7	28	29.5
	Eating most of the food	40	80	19	42.2	59	62.1
	Hardly ever	2	4	0	0	2	2.1
() I feel hungry	Never	4	8	7	15.6	11	11.6	0.006
	Occasionally	8	16	18	40	26	27.4
	Some of the time	30	60	19	42.2	49	51.6
	Most of the time	8	16	1	2.2	9	9.5
() Food tastes	Bad	1	2	2	4.4	3	3.2	<0.001
	Average	2	4	26	57.8	28	29.5
	Good	34	68	17	37.8	51	53.7
	Very good	13	26	0	0	13	13.7
() Compared to when I was 50, food tastes	Worse	1	2	15	33.3	16	16.8	<0.001
	Just as good	24	48	24	53.3	48	50.5
	Better	9	18	4	8.9	13	13.7
	Much better	16	32	2	4.4	18	18.9
() Normally, I eat	One meal a day	1	2	0	0	1	1.1	0.006
	Two meals a day	7	14	9	20	16	16.8
	Three meals a day	33	66	36	80	69	72.6
	More than three meals a day	9	18	0	0	9	9.5
() I feel sick or nauseated when I eat	Often	0	0	2	4.4	2	2.1	0.001
	Sometimes	1	2	9	20	10	10.5
	Rarely	23	46	24	53.3	47	49.5
	Never	26	52	10	22.2	36	37.9
() Most of the time my mood is	Sad	1	2	5	11.1	6	6.3	<0.001
	Neither sad nor happy	18	36	33	73.3	51	53.7
	Happy	28	56	7	15.6	35	36.8
	Very happy	3	6	0	0	3	3.2
Total scoring	17–28	2	4	45	100	47	49.5	<0.001
	>28	48	96	0	0	48	50.5

value using Fisher’s Exact Test.
Values given are number of patients (%).