Blood and urinary metabolomic evidence validating traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic classification of major depressive disorder

• Main Authors: Lan-Ying Liu (Author), Hong-Jian Zhang (Author), Li-Yuan Luo (Author), Jin-Bao Pu (Author), Wei-Qing Liang (Author), Chun-Qin Zhu (Author), Ya-Ping Li (Author), Pei-Rong Wang (Author), Yuan-Yuan Zhang (Author), Chun-Yu Yang (Author), Zhang-Jin Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a highly heterogeneous disease. Further classification may characterize its heterogeneity. The purpose of this study was to examine whether metabolomic variables could differentiate traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnostic subtypes of MDD....