Available online 2018-07-31, published 2018-07-31, Korean Herb. Med. Inf. 2018;22(1)

당뇨병 환자의 허증별 전기전도도 특성에 대한 탐색적 관찰 연구

An Exploratory Study of Electrochemical Skin Conductance for the Deficiency Pattern Identification in Diabetic Patients

Authors : 김가혜(Kahye Kim), 김지혜(Jihye Kim), 김재욱(Jaeuk U. Kim)

Abstract
Objectives
The objective of this study is to examine the interpretability of the questionnaire-based pattern identification
in terms of biosignals. For this purpose, we investigate the relationship between electrochemical skin conductance
(ESC) and Qi-Blood-Yin-Yang Deficiency Questionnaire (QBYY-Q) in diabetic patients.
Methods
A total of 40 patients with diabetes mellitus answered the QBYY-Q and their ESC were measured by
SUDOSCAN device (a diabetes screening device, France). To analyze the relationship between QBYY-Q and
ESC, ANOVA analysis and Scheffe test were performed and Pearson correlation coefficients were obtained.
Results
Of the 40 diabetic patients, 23 (57.5%) were males and 17 (42.5%) were females. According to the QBYY-Q,
9 patients were classified into Qi deficiency pattern (QD), 9 patients were Blood deficiency pattern (BD), 10
patients were Yin deficiency pattern (YiD) and 12 patients were Yang deficiency pattern (YaD). Demographic
information (age, body mass index, duration of illness, etc.), signs of vitality (blood pressure, body temperature,
etc.), fasting plasma glucose and glycated hemoglobin were not significantly different in each deficiency pattern.
The ESC of the right leg was significantly lower in the BD group compared to the YiD group (p

Keyword: Diabetes mellitus, Deficiency pattern, Electrochemical skin conductance

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