NCT01669759

The Study in the Correlation Between the Severity of Post-stroke Fatigue and the Severity of qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis

The Study in the Correlation Between the Severity of Post-stroke Fatigue and the Severity of qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis in Chinese Medicine.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: China Medical University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of fatigue, and the severity of qi deficiency and blood stasis.

Detailed description

According to the reports of department of Health, stroke has been the top three ranking in leading ten major mortality causes. Although fatigue is a common symptom after stroke, but it is easy to neglect due to fatigue is a non-specific symptom. Based on the literature review, fatigue symptom is not only common on post-stroke patient and it also has highly correlation with mortality, prognosis and efficacy of rehabilitation. In Traditional Chinese Medicine recording, Wang Qing-ren suggests that the main etiology of stroke is results from qi stagnation and blood stasis, thereafter, the study about qi deficiency and blood stasis became to the main stream for stroke until now. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of fatigue, and the severity of qi deficiency and blood stasis.

Conditions

• Poststroke Fatigue

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2012-08-21
• Last updated: 2012-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan