肥胖指标与中医体质研究

肥胖是心血管疾病、代谢性疾病和骨科疾病等许多疾病的危险因素，给医疗和社会经济带来了沉重的负担。应用中医体质理论指导肥胖防治是当今研究的热点之一。但是肥胖的判定方法和标准多种多样，如何选择适宜的肥胖指标进行中医体质研究是需要解决的问题。本文阐述肥胖与中医体质的关系以及肥胖指标在中医体质研究中的应用现状，分析目前常用的不同肥胖指标的优缺点，为筛选适宜应用于中医体质研究的肥胖指标提供参考。

Obesity Indexes and the Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution

Obesity is the risk factor of cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, orthopedics disease and other diseases. It has brought the heavy burden to the medical service and social economy. The application of Traditional Chinese Medicine （ TCM ） Constitution theory to guide obesity prevention is one of the hot spots now. But there are many different methods and standards to distinguish obesity. Then how to choose the appropriate index of obesity is a problem that the research of TCM constitution should resolve. To expound the relation- ship between obesity and the TCM constitution and the application of obesity index in the TCM constitution, analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different indicators of obesity and provide a reference for screening the favorable obesity index used in the research of TCM constitution is the main purpose of this paper.