title: [Characteristics of coronary arteriography and traditional Chinese medicine syndrome of 1,069 patients with coronary artery disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the characteristics of coronary arteriography and traditional Chinese medicine syndrome of 1,069 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).
  
  
  METHODS
  One thousand and sixty-nine patients with CAD were investigated by epidemiological method. The patients were divided into young patients (n=82, aged 45 years or younger) and middle-aged and old patients (n=987, older than 45 years). The characteristics of the two groups were analyzed, including clinical data, coronary arteriography and traditional Chinese medicine syndrome.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with middle-aged and old patients, proportion of male, triglyceride, total cholesterol, smoking patients, acute myocardial infarction and family history of CAD in young patients were significantly higher (P<0.05). Patients accompanying with hypertension and diabetes in middle-aged and old patients were more than those in young patients (P<0.05). Occurrence rates of morbidity of left circumflex coronary artery, left main coronary artery and multi-branch were higher in middle-aged and old patients (P<0.05), however, the occurrence rates of morbidity of single and double-branch were higher in young patients (P<0.05). The occurrence rates of syndromes of qi stagnation and phlegm turbidity in young patients were higher than those in middle-aged and old patients (P<0.05). But the proportions of cold coagulation, yin deficiency, yang deficiency and kidney deficiency in middle-aged and old patients were obviously higher (P<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The traditional Chinese medicine syndrome and pathological changes of CAD in young patients are different from those in old patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yan-Wei
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.forename: Jian-Xin
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qing-Yong
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Yong-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Zun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged