Consensus on diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia by TCM (First Draft) / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Dyslipidemia is one of metabolic disorder of blood lipids including cholesterol or triglycerides.Based on the close relationship with the atherosclerosis,there is little doubt that hyperlipidemia is the major risk factor for morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases.To control dyslipidemia is one of the most important measures to prevent and cure the cardiovascular diseases.The patients with dyslipidemia will take life-term western medicine.However Chinese medicine does well in treating light and middle grade dyslipidemia,which can reduce development of cardiovascular incidents and adverse reactions of western medicine.This guideline assembled all the experts'experience and expertise from Cardiopathia Committee of China Association of Chinese Medicine,which was also based on nearly thirty-year literature searching about essential hypertension home and abroad.Furthermore,we mainly classif ied TCM syndromes and made treatment principles according to our achievement in the last decade and six expert consensus conferences.This article will introduce such a guideline that we want to gather different opinions and suggestions all over our country in order to improve curative effect in practice.Besides,some information about nursing,prevention and rehabilitation is also discussed for the sake of preventing and reducing essential dyslipidemia and its complications,which is according to the theory of"Preventive Treatment of Disease"of Nei Jing.