Research Progress on Mechanism of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Large Vascular Lesions by Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Large vascular lesions have become one of the main causes in the death and disability of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The article systematically and in-depthly studied the mechanism of large vascular lesions in T2DM, in order to seek effective drug prevention and treatment. It was of vital importance in the improvement of prognosis of T2DM patients. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the basic pathogenesis of T2DM large vascular lesions was deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality, in whichqi-yin deficiency was the origin and the obstruction of collaterals was the superficiality. In western medicine, the body endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress reaction and abnormal gene expression and so on could cause T2DM large vascular lesions. This article summarized related research literatures on both TCM and western medicine in recent years. It discussed studies on mechanism of T2DM large vascular lesions.