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guide the clinicians in treatment of obesity.
2) Internal connections among networks
Through directed text mining, the internal connections
among TCM networks were also found. These internal
connections can be group e d into two major hierarchical
clusters. Each cluster is associated with one major kind
of patterns. The major treatment principles of TCM
treatment of obesity can be explored by text mining me-
thod and summarized in a succinct figure.
3) TCM Network might be useful in both TCM
clinical practices and scientific researches
The ne tw ork demonstrated in Figure 3 can be tak en as
a high level of abstraction on the treatment of obesity out
of dataset containing 27,442 recor ds. From the view point
of clinicians, it can be tak e n as a kind of refer e nce. F rom
the view point of basic researchers, this re sult might be
useful to illuminate some further studies in obesity.
5. Acknowledgements
This work was partially su pported by National Science
Foundation of China (No. 30902003 and 81072982).
2012' Traditional Chinese medicine Professional project
(No. 201207012).
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