YU Pengzhen 1,2 , YAN Jingjing 1,2 , LIANG Beibei 1,2 , LI Jia 1,2 , LI Bin 1,3
  • 1. Heart Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, P. R. China;
  • 2. The First Clinical Medical College of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Henan Evidence-based Chinese Medicine Center, Zhengzhou 450000, P. R. China;
LI Bin, Email: libinnvhai@163.com
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Objective To use the evidence map system to search and sort out the clinical research on the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia with proprietary Chinese medicine, and to understand the distribution of evidence in this field. Methods The literature on the treatment of hyperlipidemia with proprietary Chinese medicines was retrieved from CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP, SinoMed, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase and Web of Science databases from inception to December 2022. The distribution characteristics of evidence were analyzed and presented by means of text and graph. Results A total of 865 articles were included and 79 kinds of proprietary Chinese medicines were obtained. The Xuezhikang tablets or capsules were the most frequently used. In recent years, the number of published articles showed a downward trend, and the literature quality was generally low. Most of the research intervention programs only used Chinese patent medicine, and the sample size of a single study was mostly 60-100 patients, and the study course was 4-8 weeks. Clinical studies did not highlight the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, and only 12.7% of the studies limited the syndrome type of traditional Chinese medicine in the study population. In terms of the selection of outcome indicators, more attention was paid to blood lipid levels and safety indicators, while less attention was paid to indicators such as traditional Chinese medicine syndrome scores. Conclusion The results show that Chinese patent medicine has certain advantages in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia, but there are some deficiencies in the reports of methodology and clinical characteristics, and the overall quality of the research is low.

Citation: YU Pengzhen, YAN Jingjing, LIANG Beibei, LI Jia, LI Bin. Evidence mapping of clinical research on prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia with Chinese patent medicines. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2024, 24(9): 1061-1069. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202310005 Copy

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