OBJECTIVETo study the relationship among peripheral leucocytes, coronary artery stenosis and Chinese medicine syndromes in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).

METHODSThe Chinese medicine syndromes of 189 CHD patients were differentiated into six types: the turbidity-phlegm blood-stasis type (A), the qi-deficiency blood-stasis type (B), the cold-congealing blood-stasis type (C), the qi-stagnancy blood-stasis type (D), the qi-deficiency phlegm-stasis type (E) and the turbidity-phlegm blocking laterals type (F). Coronary angiography and peripheral leucocyte counting were performed simultaneously for determining the degree of blood-stasis by scoring (BSS), and the outcome of coronary angiography was evaluated depending Gensini scoring system. All data obtained were analyzed statistically.

RESULTSThe highest BSS, that means the highest degree of coronary artery stenosis, was shown in patients of Chinese medicine type C, following with type A, B and D in order, the lowest level was found in the non-blood-stasis groups, namely, patients of Chinese medicine type E and F. Peripheral count of leucocytes were correlated with the BSS and Gensini score, count of mononuclear cell was individually correlated with BSS, and that of neutrophil was individually correlated with Gensini score.

CONCLUSIONSBSS and distribution of peripheral leucocytes were different in CHD patients of various Chinese medicine types, count of peripheral mononuclear cell is individually correlated with BSS, and that of neutrophil is individually correlated with Gensini score.