Effects of Xiaozhitang combined with western medicine on serum lipids in male patients with hyperlipidemia / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the clinical effect and side effect of Xiaozhitang combined with western medicine .Methods Eighty male patients with hyperlipidemia in our hospital was selected from January 2010 to January 2013 and divided randomly into observation group(n=40)and control group(n=40) .Patients in the control group received treatment with atorvastatin calcium (10 mg/d)while patients in the observation group were administrated with Xiaozhitang besides the routine measures .The values of total cholesterol (TC) ,triglyceride(TG) ,high density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL‐C)and low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL‐C) serum creatinine(Scr) ,alanine transaminase(ALT) ,aspartate aminotransferase(AST) ,creatine kinase(CK)were assessed before and after 8 ,16 weeks treatment .Drug‐induced adverse effects were also observed .Results TC ,TG ,LDL‐C were (5 .87 ± 0 .89) , (1 .62 ± 0 .62) ,(3 .62 ± 0 .55)mmol/L in the observation group before treatment and significantly reduced after 16 weeks treatment [(4 .59 ± 0 .52) ,(1 .53 ± 0 .53) ,(2 .69 ± 0 .41)mmol/L](P0 .05) .The observation group achieved a significantly greater reduction in LDL‐C and TC than the control group (P<0 .05) .There was a significantly differences in adverse reaction(P<0 .05)but all could be well tolerated .The quality of life score of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the con‐trol group(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The Xiaozhitang combined with atorvastatin calcium could achieve a significantly greater reduc‐tion in lipid‐lowering effect than pure western medicine ,and it shows satisfactory safety and have less side effect .