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Effect of traditional and integrative regimens on quality of life and early renal impairment in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension

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Abstract

Objective

To observe the effect of Chinese medical regimen and integrative medical regimen on quality of life and early renal impairment in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension (EISH).

Methods

A multi-center, randomized, double-blinded controlled trail was adopted. A total of 270 cases of EISH were randomly divided into 3 groups: Chinese medicine group (CM), combination group and Western medicine group (WM). The course of treatment was 4 weeks. The clinical blood pressure, integral of quality of life (SF-36 scale), immunoglubin G (IgG), microalbumin (mALB), β2-microglobulin (β2-MG), transferrin (TRF) and N-acetyl-β′-D-glucosa-minidase (NAG) in urine were determined before and after the treatment.

Results

After treatment, systolic blood pressure depressed significantly in each group (P<0.05), and the combination group was superior to CM or WM group in depressing SBP (P<0.05); in each group, integral of quality of life improved in different degree, and combination group was superior to WM group in all 8 dimensions (P<0.05). The level of mALB and β2-MG in urine decreased in all groups (P<0.05), and the combination group was superior to CM group or WM group in decreasing mALB (P<0.05).

Conclusions

Chinese medical regimen has affirmative effect in treating EISH patients, and could lower the systolic blood pressure, improve quality of life and early renal impairment of the patients, and integrative medical regimen has superiority on account of cooperation, and deserves further study.

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  1. Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100091, China

    Hao Li  (李 浩), Long-tao Liu  (刘龙涛), Wen-ming Zhao  (赵文明), Jian-gang Liu  (刘剑刚), Ming-jiang Yao  (姚明江), Li Liu  (刘 丽), Xue-mei Wang  (王雪梅), Lin-lin Cai  (蔡琳琳) & Jie Guan  (官 杰)

  2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Yanqing County, Beijing, 102100, China

    Yong-xiang Han  (韩永祥) & Yan-peng Shen  (沈雁朋)

  3. Community Health Service Centers of Yanqing County, Beijing, 102100, China

    Xing-dong Liu  (刘兴东)

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Supported by “Eleventh Five-Year” National Science and Technology Support Program of Chinese Medicine Treatment of Common Diseases Project (No. 2007BAI20B07); Science and Technology Research Projects of Capital Medical Development Fund, (No. 03 II 01)

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Li, H., Liu, Lt., Zhao, Wm. et al. Effect of traditional and integrative regimens on quality of life and early renal impairment in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 16, 216–221 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-010-0216-y

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