[Clinical and laboratory studies of effect of longevity-antihypertensive-mixture on elderly hypertension with kidney deficiency].

ABSTRACT

UNLABELLED Longevity-Antihypertensive-Mixture (LAM) is a Chinese herbal drug, which could tonify Kidney in treating the hypertension with Kidney Deficiency in aged patients. RESULTS: 302 patients were randomly divided into three group The treated group was subdivided into group I (107 Kidney Yin Deficiency patients) and group II (96 non-Kidney Yin Deficiency cases) and group III (99, control group). After treatment of LAM for 8 weeks, the rate of normalizing the blood pressure was 92.52% in group I while in group II, it was 84.43%, the symptoms were also significantly alleviated, and in group III, the rate was 70.71% only. The aorta compliance in group I significantly improved after LAM treatment (P < 0.025), the quality index of left ventricle reduced in treated group, and there was significant difference between treated and control groups. After treatment, LAM could shorten the length of extracorporal thrombus in group. The study showed that LAM could treat hypertension through LAM, administration with good effect.