Table 12.
CCMQ and SF-12v2 scores by gender and age groups.
| Gender | Age group | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male (n = 324) | Female (n = 756) | 18–40 (n = 376) | 41–64 (n = 562) | >65 (n = 140) | ||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| CCMQ | ||||||||||
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| (1) Gentleness∗† | 66.9 | 15.6 | 59.0 | 16.7 | 58.5 | 16.4 | 61.6 | 16.8 | 68.8 | 14.9 |
| (2) Qi-deficiency∗† | 29.3 | 15.9 | 35.5 | 17.8 | 37.7 | 17.1 | 33.6 | 17.2 | 22.5 | 14.9 |
| (3) Yang-deficiency∗† | 18.1 | 16.7 | 30.9 | 22.2 | 31.5 | 21.3 | 26.1 | 21.4 | 17.7 | 18.5 |
| (4) Yin-deficiency∗† | 21.8 | 15.9 | 28.7 | 16.5 | 31.5 | 16.3 | 26.2 | 16.4 | 15.6 | 12.7 |
| (5) Phlegm-wetness∗† | 23.2 | 16.4 | 28.3 | 17.6 | 29.6 | 17.2 | 27.5 | 17.5 | 16.7 | 14.2 |
| (6) Wetness-heat† | 26.4 | 16.3 | 26.3 | 17.3 | 33.4 | 17.1 | 24.3 | 15.7 | 15.5 | 13.9 |
| (7) Blood-stasis∗† | 20.0 | 13.6 | 31.1 | 16.1 | 31.0 | 16.3 | 28.0 | 16.3 | 18.4 | 11.5 |
| (8) Qi-depression∗† | 20.6 | 17.1 | 29.6 | 18.9 | 31.6 | 18.2 | 26.5 | 18.9 | 15.2 | 14.9 |
| (9) Special diathesis∗† | 21.8 | 16.0 | 25.6 | 17.4 | 29.1 | 17.6 | 23.7 | 16.4 | 15.6 | 14.3 |
| SF-12v2 | ||||||||||
| (1) Physical component score∗† | 48.6 | 8.5 | 45.2 | 10.3 | 47.6 | 9.0 | 45.8 | 9.9 | 44.1 | 11.8 |
| (2) Mental component score | 51.4 | 9.9 | 49.9 | 10.8 | 47.6 | 10.0 | 50.9 | 10.4 | 55.7 | 10.1 |
*Significant difference between the patients with gender by Mann-Whitney U test (P < 0.05).
†Significant difference between the patients with age by Kruskal-Wallis H test (P < 0.05).