Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Differentiation of AIDS Patients on ARV Complicated with Anemia and Hyperlipidemia
10.11842/wst.2013.03.037
- VernacularTitle:艾滋病患者服ARV并发贫血和高脂血症的中医证候分析＊
- Author:
Jun YUAN
;
Zhen LI
;
Yantao JIN
;
Zhibin LIU
;
Qiang LI
;
Huijun GUO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
AIDS;
HAART;
anemia;
hyperlipidemia;
syndrome
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(3):555-559
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This study was aimed to analyze four diagnostic methods of AIDS patients with HAART complicated with anemia and hyperlipidemia. Characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and common pathogenesis were discussed in this article. This study was supported by Key Project of the National Eleventh-Five Year Research Program of China. This study was conducted through the retrospective analysis. This analysis was made on the four diagnostic methods of AIDS patients with HAART treatment. The results showed that the most frequent symptoms of AIDS patients with anemia or hyperlipidemia are fatigue, facial abnormalities, taste abnormalities, forgetfulness, backache, weakness of back, loss of appetite, insomnia. And the frequent tongue and pulse are white tough coating, pale tongue and fine pulse. The most frequent symptoms of the anemia group are facial abnormalities, backache, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, pale complexion, abnormal state of mind, abnormal sweating, tinnitus, cold hands and feet, spontaneous sweating, white tongue coating, tooth-printed tongue, thin tongue coating and weak pulse (P < 0.05). The most frequent symptom of hyperlipidemia are lassitude, weakness, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, moisture tongue, thick and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse. It was concluded that syndromes of AIDS patients on ARV complicated with anemia and hyperlipidemia are mainly deficient pattern, which affects the spleen, heart, liver and kidney. The most frequent syndrome type with anemia patients is blood deficiency, which is followed by spleen-kidney deficiency syndrome, liver-kidney deficiency syndrome. The most frequent syndrome type with hyperlipidemia patients is spleen qi deficiency and kidney essence deficiency, which are closely related to the spleen and kidney.
