Progress of study on improvement of vascular endothelial function by Chinese herbal medicine in hypertensive patients.
- Author:
Cheng-Xia XIA
1
;
Shu LU
Author Information
1. Wuxi Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu. shiecy@163.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Antihypertensive Agents;
therapeutic use;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
therapeutic use;
Endothelium, Vascular;
metabolism;
physiopathology;
Humans;
Hypertension;
drug therapy;
metabolism;
physiopathology
- From:
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
2008;28(4):378-381
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Hypertension is one of the common cardiovascular diseases, and the role of endothelial dysfunction in pathogenesis and development of hypertension was paid more and more attention to increasingly. The laboratory and clinical studies on the improvement of vascular endothelial function by Chinese herbal medicine in hypertensive patients were reviewed in this paper.
