Impact of Chinese herb on quality of life of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled study / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To test and vertify the clinical efficacy of Chinese syndrome-differentiation therapy in treating stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Two hundred and sixteen stable-COPD patients were randomly divided into 2 groups the treated group and control group, they were treated with respiratory exercises increases Chinese medicine and respiratory exercises increases placebo for 4 weeks respectively. Then evaluate the health-related quality of life of patients with stable COPD by using SF-36 before and after treatment.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Comparison of the health-related quality of life before and after treatment the health-related quality of life in treated group was significantly improved after treatment and total score of SF-36 was better than control group (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Respiratory exercises increases Chinese medicine could improve the health-related quality of life significantly in patients with stable COPD, moreover its efficacy was superior to respiratory exercises increases placebo.</p>