The Clinical Effects of Sasang Constitutional Diets for the Hyperlipidemic Patients

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Sasang constitutional medicine, a part of oriental medicine, there are beneficial or non-beneficial foods according to the each constitutions. Lately the diet based on this theory is gaining public attention and researchers' interests. Until now, most of the studies have investigated the classification of foods according to the each constitutions. The clinical usage of the constitutional diets is now in the beginning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the therapeutic effects of the hypolipidemic constitutional diets in the patients with hyperlipidemia. From January to August, 1999, the 65 hyperlipidemic patients admitted to Kyung Hee Oriental Medical Center were studied. Therapeutic diets for the hyperlipidemic patients or each constitutional diets were given to the subjects 3 meals a day for 6 weeks. The Sasang constitutional classification, food habits, and dietary intakes were assessed. The anthropometric assessment, blood analysis were carried out before and after taking each experimental diets. The results are as follow; 1. The average age of the objects was 64.1±9.1 years, the constitutional distribution were 63.0% of Tae-eumin, 26.2% of So-yangin, 10.8% of So-eumin. 2. The body weight and BMI of Tae-eum were significantly higher than those of So-eum and So-yang. 3. The food habits of each constitutions were very similar to those of the Sasang constitutional types described by Snag medicine. 4. Therapeutic and constitutional diets lowered the serum levels of total lipid, triglyceride and VLDL-cholesterol. The therapeutic diet decreased the serum levels of HDL-cholesterol but the constitutional diets did not. 5. In the case of Tae-eum, the effects of therapeutic and constitutional diets were the highest. In the So-yang, only constitutional diets significantly decreased the serum levels of total lipid and LDL-cholesterol.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Introduction
• Subjects and Methods
• 1.Subject
• 2.Methods
• Results and Discussion
• 1.General characters of subjects
• 2.Figural features of the subjects by the Sasang constitutions
• 3.Eating patterns of the subjects by the Sasang constitutions
• 4.Effects of constitutional and therapeutic diets on blood lipid levels