[Relationship between Chinese medicine pattern with blood levels of sex hormone, lipid and glucose in climacteric women patients with hypertension].

Objective: To find the objective indices for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pattern identification in women patients with climacteric hypertension (CH) by exploring the relationship between TCM pattern with blood levels of sex hormone, lipid and glucose.

Methods: TCM syndrome differentiation was made in 75 women CH patients, 43 as yin-deficiency with inner dryness pattern (YDD) and 32 as non-YDD, and correlation analyses were conducted on TCM patterns and blood levels of estradiol (E2), lipids and glucose.

Results: Besides the level of E2 in YDD was lower than that in non-YDD [(112.