Prospective Cohort Study of the Body Constitution Among Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Prospective Cohort Study of the Body Constitution Among Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients

By analyzing the relationship between the body constitution and the progression of Type II diabetes mellitus, its morbidities, mortality and the impact of the life quality, we try to provide an useful tool, body constitution, to stratify the patients accordingly for individualized health care.

The study participants are recruited from the Diabetes Shared Care Network of the Taichung Veterans General Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan)

Inclusion Criteria:

• patient diagnosed as Type II diabetes mellitus by Endocrinology specialist.
• aged from 20 to 75 years old.
• clear conscious, willing to join the program.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe mental illness, which lead to unable to fulfill the questionaire
• Major surgical intervention,medical events (such as acute myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident...et al.,), chemotherapy or radiation therapy within past one month , which made body constitution measurement unavailable.