Table 2.
Distribution of IM sessions by treatment type and circulatory system disease
| Diseases of the circulatory system | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any a | Arteries, Arterioles & Capillaries | Cerebrovascular | Hypertension | Ischemic heart disease | Pulmonary circulation | Other | |
| No. of Cardiovascular Admissions with IM Therapy | 6,589 | 427 | 863 | 4,207 | 1,278 | 481 | 3,365 |
| No. of Total IM Sessions (%) | 16,344 (100.0) | 1,304 (100.0) | 2,798 (100.0) | 9,868 (100.0) | 2,862 (100.0) | 1,776 (100.0) | 9,216 (100.0) |
| Bodywork (BW) (%) | 7,477 (45.7) | 638 (48.9) | 1,479 (52.9) | 4,455 (45.1) | 1,359 (47.5) | 947 (53.3) | 4,554 (49.4) |
| Mind-Body and Energy Therapies (MBE) (%) | 2,059 (12.6) | 168 (12.9) | 311 (11.1) | 1,108 (11.2) | 371 (13.0) | 238 (13.4) | 1,197 (13.0) |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (%) | 3,051 (18.7) | 176 (13.5) | 482 (17.2) | 2,108 (21.4) | 398 (13.9) | 186 (10.5) | 1,367 (14.8) |
| Combination Therapy (%) | 3,757 (23.0) | 322 (24.7) | 526 (18.8) | 2,197 (22.3) | 734 (25.6) | 405 (22.8) | 2,098 (22.8) |
aIM sessions for patients with more than one circulatory system disease during an admission count under the ‘Any’ column as well as under the appropriate disease columns. As such, the sum of individual disease columns does not equal the sum of the ‘Any’ column.