Clinical Studies on the General Features and the Obesity-Skinniness of Patients with
Bell's Palsy

Choi, Gyu-ho; Jang, Soo-young; Shin, Hyeon-cheol

The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine > Volume 30(1); 2009 > Article

Original Article

The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine 2009;30(1): 129-143.

口眼喎斜환자의 일반적 특성 및 肥瘦에 따른 임상적 고찰

최규호, 장수영, 신현철

대구한의대학교 한의과대학 내과학교실

Clinical Studies on the General Features and the Obesity-Skinniness of Patients with Bell's Palsy

Gyu-ho Choi, Soo-young Jang, Hyeon-cheol Shin

Dept. of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Dae-gu Haany University

Correspondence

Hyeon-cheol Shin ,Tel: 054-281-0055, Fax: 054-281-7464, Email: ungaeshin@naver.com

Published online: March 30, 2009.

ABSTRACT

Objective :
This study was aimed to investigate the general features and differences between obesity and skinniness of patients with Bell's palsy.

Methods :
We measured the sex, age, BMI, pulse diagnosis and HBGS (House-Brackmann Grading System) of 234 patients who were diagnosed with Bell's palsy.

Results and Conclusions :
The results with statistical significance were as follows (1) The distribution of age revealed that 40s was the most at 30.8%; (2) The improvement period in facial palsy patients with sub-paralysis was shorter than whole-paralysis. And in one part the more we treated, the shorter the improvement period was; (3) In distribution of fat rate in facial palsy patients, obesity was the most at 61.37%, low weight 15.88%. So we found that the fatter the patients was, the higher the onset rate was; (4) In distribution of pulse diagnosis in facial palsy patients with obesity, the ratio of Xu mai (虛脈) was 67.06%, Shi mai (實脈) 32.94%. The Xu mai was similar to Qi xu (氣虛). So we found that the facial palsy patients with obesity were more Qi xu than with low weight. In distribution of pulse diagnosis in facial palsy patients with skinniness, the ratio of Chi mai (遲脈) was none, Shuo mai (數脈) was most; (5) In distribution of region in facial palsy patients with obesity- Xu mai, the ratio of left was 45.10%, right 54.90%, but this result was not statistically significant.

Key words: Bell's palsy, facial palsy, obesity, fat, skinniness