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Baseline analyses used the first available record per participant, and longitudinal analyses used 32,648 pairs of adjacent annual visits. The framework included bidirectional disease-constitution mapping, nonoverlapping multimarker burden modeling, lagged next-visit association models, constitution-state transition analysis, and temporal evaluation of routine examination\u2013based label prediction models. Additional sensitivity analyses evaluated participant overlap across calendar-year splits, participant-disjoint temporal evaluation, BMI-only and BMI-plus-waist baselines, exclusion of anthropometric predictors, adiposity adjustment of longitudinal models, and new-onset and persistence outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Phlegm-dampness showed the clearest record-based signature and was associated with higher cardiometabolic marker burden than balanced constitution (incidence rate ratio 1.65, 95% CI 1.60\u20101.70). In lagged models, its associations with a subsequent abdominal ultrasound abnormality flag and cardiometabolic risk clustering persisted after BMI adjustment, whereas associations with diabetes-related markers, proteinuria, dyslipidemia, and glucose abnormalities were substantially attenuated. Of 11,355 participants, 8122 appeared in at least 2 original calendar-year splits. In a participant-disjoint temporal sensitivity analysis with 1054 new test participants, extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) identified phlegm-dampness label presence with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.927 (95% CI 0.912\u20100.941). A BMI-only model achieved 0.923 (95% CI 0.907\u20100.938), whereas XGBoost without anthropometric predictors achieved 0.685 (95% CI 0.653\u20100.717).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Routine health examination data captured a reproducible, predominantly adiposity-centered phlegm-dampness label phenotype in this cohort of older adults. High discrimination was retained in participant-disjoint evaluation but was nearly matched by the BMI-only model, and several longitudinal associations were explained by adiposity. The models should therefore be interpreted as decision-support and communication aids for an existing constitution assessment process and not as stand-alone diagnostic systems or comprehensive classifiers of TCM constitution.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2196\/100063","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,31]],"date-time":"2026-08-31T15:55:09Z","timestamp":1788191709000},"page":"e100063-e100063","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Longitudinal Digital Phenotyping of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution From Routine Health Examination Records: Retrospective Clinical Informatics 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