title: [Latent structure model evaluation of syndrome elements and features in 826 hypertriglyceridemia patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate main Chinese medical syndrome elements and features of hypertriglyceridemia patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using latent structure model (LSM) method, the latent structure diagram of 826 hypertriglyceridemia patients were established. Hypertriglyceridemia syndrome elements and features were interpreted by using latent probability, conditional probability, mutual information, and cumulative information coverage to quantify symptoms/syndromes data,as well as using manual interpretation methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The accumulative information coverage rate reaching 95% was taken as the judgment standard for major syndrome elements. In the 826 hypertriglyceridemia patients, moderate and severe symptoms/syndromes (with the latent probability being 35% and 60% respectively) were dominant. The syndrome elements mainly included qi deficiency, qi stagnation,fire heat, stasis blood, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency. The main targets were dominated in Xin, Gan, and Shen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  LSM based syndrome element evaluation method could quantify the association degree of each variable (syndrome element; Chinese medical symptoms) and the occurrence probability.
authors: College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shaanxi College of Chinese Medicine, Shaanxi (712046), China.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: He
authors: Shu-ren
authors: SR
authors: Guo
authors: Yan-ming
authors: YM
authors: Xie
authors: Ping-lan
authors: PL
authors: Liu
authors: Feng
authors: F
authors: Tian
authors: Yan
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Jun-xian
authors: JX
authors: Zhao
authors: He-ping
authors: HP
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016711:Yang Deficiency / Q000175:diagnosis; D016710:Yin Deficiency / Q000175:diagnosis; D055815:Young Adult