title: [Typing of bronchiectasis according to syndrome differentiation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the general law of typing of bronchiectasis according to syndrome differentiation.
  
  
  METHODS
  We collected the symptoms, conditions of tongue and pulse in patients of bronchiectasis, using frequencies procedure, discriminant analysis and K-means cluster analysis in SPSS statistical software as research medium.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five hundred and sixty three patients with bronchiectasis were studied. It suggested that accumulation of phlegm-heat in the lungs (45.65%), liver fire attacking the lungs (24.51%), asthenia of pulmonosplenic qi (22.38%), asthenia of both qi and yin (7.46%) were the main types.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical epidemiology provided scientific basis for further studying of the typing of bronchiectasis according to syndrome differentiation. Building up differentiation of syndromes through differentiation and analysis of main symptoms can be used in clinical diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Deparment of Respiratory Diseases, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China. lily681_2@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ying-Gen
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hui-Yong
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Chang-Rong
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Shao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000592:standards*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013577:Syndrome