title: [Study on mental stress life events in patients with cyclomastopathy of liver stagnation syndrome type].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the changes of mental stress life events (MSLE) in patients with cyclomastopathy of liver stagnation syndrome type (LSS).
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical epidemiological research method was adopted, the changes of MSLE were observed in cyclomastopathy patients of LSS or non-LSS, classified by syndrome differentiation of TCM.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Not only the mean age (33.38 +/- 6.76 years) of patients with LSS was obviously lower than that of patients with non-LSS (38.36 +/- 9.89 years, P < 0.01), but also the mean age of patients with moderate and serious symptoms of LSS (33.96 +/- 7.31 and 37.43 +/- 7.38 years) were higher than that of patients with mild symptoms of LSS (31.67 +/- 5.39 years, P < 0.05 and P < 0.01). MSLE score of patients with LSS (32 scores) was significantly higher than that of patients with non-LSS (22 scores, P < 0.01). MSLE score of patients with moderate and serious LSS was 34.69 +/- 17.78 scores and 51.65 +/- 20.75 scores respectively, both were significantly higher than that of patients with mild LSS (26.57 +/- 15.85 scores, P < 0.05 and P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The high incidence age of cyclomastopathy is under 40 years, and most of cyclomastopathy patients are classsified to LSS by TCM syndrome differentiation. So age and life event scores may be the objective bases for syndrome typing and liver stagnation syndrome grading in patients with cyclomastopathy.
authors.affiliation: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jia-Xu
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome; D055815:Young Adult