Correlation of Traditional Chinese Medical Syndrome Patterns with Endothelial Damage,Inflammation and Platelet Activation in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease / 广州中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective The differences of von Willebrand factor(vWF),hypersensitive C-reactive protein(hs-CRP) and soluble P-selectin CD62P were observed in coronary heart disease(CHD) patients with different syndrome patterns,and the correlation of traditional Chinese medical(TCM) syndrome patterns with endothelial damage,inflammation and platelet activation in CHD patients was investigated.Methods One hundred and eighty-six CHD patients were differentiated as the syndromes of blockage of heart-blood-stasis,phlegm blocking heart vessels,deficiency of heart and kidney yin,deficiency of both yin and Qi,and deficiency of yang and Qi.Thirty healthy volunteers served as normal control.The blood levels of vWF,hs-CRP and CD62P were detected in the CHD patients and the normal controls.Results Blood vWF level in CHD patients was higher than that in the normal controls(P0.05).Blood CD62P in the syndrome pattern of deficiency of yang and Qi was higher than the other patterns(P