作者
Chia-Chi Chang, Yu-Chen Lee, Che-Chen Lin, Chin-Hsien Chang, Cheng-Di Chiu, Li-Wei Chou, Mao-Feng Sun, Hung-Rong Yen
发表日期
2016/6/20
期刊
Journal of ethnopharmacology
卷号
186
页码范围
311-321
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Ethnopharmacological relevance
Stroke has been the leading causes of death worldwide. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used for stoke patients for thousands of years. This study aimed to investigate TCM usage and prescription patterns in stroke patients in Taiwan.
Materials and methods
We analyzed a random sample of one million individuals representing the 23 million enrollees selected from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. Demographic characteristics, TCM usage, prescription patterns and mortality rate among stroke patients were analyzed.
Results
We identified 23,816 patients who were newly diagnosed with stroke between 2001 and 2009 by their diagnostic codes (ICD-9-CM 430–438). Among them, 4302 patients had hemorrhagic stroke while 19,514 patients had ischemic stroke. Overall, 12% of the stroke patients (n=2862) were TCM users. The median interval …
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