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Article: Study protocol: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation for heart failure patients and its implication for long-term therapeutic outcomes of the Qiliqiangxin capsules

TitleStudy protocol: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation for heart failure patients and its implication for long-term therapeutic outcomes of the Qiliqiangxin capsules
Authors
KeywordsChronic heart failure
Qiliqiangxin (QLQX) capsule
Syndrome
Syndrome element
Syndrome questionnaire
Issue Date2021
PublisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.cmjournal.org/home
Citation
Chinese Medicine, 2021, v. 16, article no. 103 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground: Syndrome differentiation is a commonly used methodology and practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) guiding the diagnosis and treatment of diseases including heart failure (HF). However, previous clinical trials seldom consider the impact of syndrome patterns on the outcome evaluation of TCM formulae. Qiliqiangxin (QLQX) capsule is a TCM formula with cardiotonic effect to improve the cardiovascular function for heart failure with proven efficacy from well-designed clinical trials. Though, there is no clinical trial with a large sample size and long assessment period that considers the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and the treatment efficacy of QLQX. In the present study, we design a study protocol to evaluate the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and the severity of heart failure as well as its progression. Furthermore, we will evaluate the impact of the TCM syndrome patterns on the efficacy of QLQX in the outcome of heart failure. Methods: This is a clinical study conducted in conjunction with an ongoing clinical trial (QUEST Study) by sharing the parent patient populations but with different aims and independent designed roadmaps to investigate the TCM syndrome pattern distributions and the impacts of syndrome pattern types on the efficacy of QLQX in HF treatment. The clinical trial involves over 100 hospitals in mainland China and Hong Kong SAR with 3080 HF patients. By assessing the morbidity and re-hospitalization, we will verify and apply a modified TCM Questionnaire to collect the clinical manifestations of HF and acquire the tongue images of the patients to facilitate the syndrome differentiation. We will base on the "2014 Consensus from TCM experts on diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure" to evaluate the TCM syndromes for the patients. A pilot study with at least 600 patients will be conducted to evaluate the reliability, feasibility and validity of the modified TCM questionnaire for syndrome differentiation of HF and the sample size is calculated based on the confidence level of 95%, population size of 3080 and 5% margin of error. Secondly, we will investigate the characteristic of TCM syndrome distribution of HF patients and its correlation with the functional and biochemical data. Furthermore, we will evaluate the relationship between the TCM syndrome patterns and the efficacy of QLQX in the treatment of heart failure. Lastly, we will investigate the implication of tongue diagnosis in the severity and therapeutic outcome of HF. Expect outcomes: To our knowledge, this is the first large scale clinical trial to evaluate the impacts of TCM syndrome differentiation on the progression and therapeutic outcome of HF patients and explore the diagnostic value of TCM Tongue Diagnosis in HF patients. We expect to obtain direct clinical evidence to verify the importance of TCM syndrome differentiation for the diagnosis and treatment of HF.
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dc.contributor.authorLEUNG, YLA-
dc.contributor.authorChen, H-
dc.contributor.authorJia, Z-
dc.contributor.authorLi, X-
dc.contributor.authorShen, J-
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-07T07:59:32Z-
dc.date.available2022-02-07T07:59:32Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationChinese Medicine, 2021, v. 16, article no. 103-
dc.identifier.issn1749-8546-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/310630-
dc.description.abstractBackground: Syndrome differentiation is a commonly used methodology and practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) guiding the diagnosis and treatment of diseases including heart failure (HF). However, previous clinical trials seldom consider the impact of syndrome patterns on the outcome evaluation of TCM formulae. Qiliqiangxin (QLQX) capsule is a TCM formula with cardiotonic effect to improve the cardiovascular function for heart failure with proven efficacy from well-designed clinical trials. Though, there is no clinical trial with a large sample size and long assessment period that considers the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and the treatment efficacy of QLQX. In the present study, we design a study protocol to evaluate the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and the severity of heart failure as well as its progression. Furthermore, we will evaluate the impact of the TCM syndrome patterns on the efficacy of QLQX in the outcome of heart failure. Methods: This is a clinical study conducted in conjunction with an ongoing clinical trial (QUEST Study) by sharing the parent patient populations but with different aims and independent designed roadmaps to investigate the TCM syndrome pattern distributions and the impacts of syndrome pattern types on the efficacy of QLQX in HF treatment. The clinical trial involves over 100 hospitals in mainland China and Hong Kong SAR with 3080 HF patients. By assessing the morbidity and re-hospitalization, we will verify and apply a modified TCM Questionnaire to collect the clinical manifestations of HF and acquire the tongue images of the patients to facilitate the syndrome differentiation. We will base on the "2014 Consensus from TCM experts on diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure" to evaluate the TCM syndromes for the patients. A pilot study with at least 600 patients will be conducted to evaluate the reliability, feasibility and validity of the modified TCM questionnaire for syndrome differentiation of HF and the sample size is calculated based on the confidence level of 95%, population size of 3080 and 5% margin of error. Secondly, we will investigate the characteristic of TCM syndrome distribution of HF patients and its correlation with the functional and biochemical data. Furthermore, we will evaluate the relationship between the TCM syndrome patterns and the efficacy of QLQX in the treatment of heart failure. Lastly, we will investigate the implication of tongue diagnosis in the severity and therapeutic outcome of HF. Expect outcomes: To our knowledge, this is the first large scale clinical trial to evaluate the impacts of TCM syndrome differentiation on the progression and therapeutic outcome of HF patients and explore the diagnostic value of TCM Tongue Diagnosis in HF patients. We expect to obtain direct clinical evidence to verify the importance of TCM syndrome differentiation for the diagnosis and treatment of HF.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.cmjournal.org/home-
dc.relation.ispartofChinese Medicine-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectChronic heart failure-
dc.subjectQiliqiangxin (QLQX) capsule-
dc.subjectSyndrome-
dc.subjectSyndrome element-
dc.subjectSyndrome questionnaire-
dc.titleStudy protocol: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation for heart failure patients and its implication for long-term therapeutic outcomes of the Qiliqiangxin capsules-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailChen, H: haiyong@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailShen, J: shenjg@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityChen, H=rp01923-
dc.identifier.authorityShen, J=rp00487-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s13020-021-00515-1-
dc.identifier.pmid34656145-
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC8520188-
dc.identifier.hkuros331620-
dc.identifier.volume16-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 103-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 103-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000707704300001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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