Relevant Research On Using Combination Of Traditional Chinese And Western Medicine To Treat Elderly Hypertension

China is holding an aging society now. Hypertension is a very common and frequently-occurring disease among all elderly cardiovascular diseases and it causes great damage to human body. It is also one of the biggest problems of public health in the whole world. Hypertension bears the characteristics of high morbidity, disabilities rate and mortality. To treat hypertension is a great challenge and clinicians need to take effective measures to reduce morbidity and mortality. Isolated systolic hypertension is mostly seen among all elderly hypertension patients. Due to atherosclerosis which makes vascular wall harder than normal in old people’s body, elderly hypertension usually comes with wide blood pressure range, relatively huge pulse pressure and some complications. It also damages the heart, brain and kidney. So to make the blood pressure under control is a good way to cut down the number of complications of myocardial infarction, heart failure, cerebral apoplexy or kidney failure happening on old patients. It is of great importance to the prevention and cure of hypertension.Objective of the research:To measure the clinical efficacy of treating elderly hypertension using Zhenganxifeng soup combined with levamlodipine besylate. To discuss about the advantages of using combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine after clinical observation. To distinguish the features of traditional Chinese medicine.Method:To randomly divide114patients with elderly hypertension into two groups. One is control group with57patients treated by levamlodipine besylate. Another is treatment group with57patients treated by levamlodipine besylate and Zhenganxifeng soup together, and the course of treatment is4weeks. In both groups, data of the patients like age, gender and BMI should be taken down. In addition, it should be noted that whether the patient is suffering cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease or diabetes. Other information, like blood pressure, blood lipid level, liver and kidney function and ECG, also needs to be examined before treatment and after treatment to see whether there is any improvement. Statistical methods will be applied to analyze the discrepancy between the two groups in parameters such as age, gender, course of disease, and number of cases in different blood pressure levels. Such comparisons will also be made in aspects of efficacy, improvement of clinical conditions, and blood lipid level. Results:There is no statistical discrepancy between control group and treatment group in aspects of age, gender, course of disease, and number of cases in different blood pressure levels(P>0.05). After treatment in each group, patients had their blood pressure lowered and the effect of treatment group is better than control group with significant difference (P0.01). According to the symptom integral, the improvement of clinical conditions in treatment group is much better than that in control group with significant statistical discrepancy (P<0.01). The blood lipid level in treatment group is lower by medicine yet there is no significant discrepancy compared with that in control group (P>0.05).Conclusion:Proper medication is of great importance to treat patients with elderly hypertension. Safe, effective and mild medicines should be applied to take blood pressure under control and minimize the damage to target organ, and improve the living conditions of patients. In the research, Zhenganxifeng soup has a significant efficacy of treating patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency, or hyperactivity of liver yang. And by using levamlodipine besylate together, the effect of lowering blood pressure is strengthened. Therefore, combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine is better than applying just western medicine to treat elderly hypertension. Besides, the combination is very safe in clinical practice.