title: [Study on the Chinese medicine syndrome characteristics and coronary artery lesion specialty of female coronary heart disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the clinical feature, coronary artery lesion specialty and Chinese medicine syndrome characteristics of coronary heart disease (CHD) in females.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical materials of 297 female patients with CHD, whose diagnosis had been confirmed by coronary angiography, were analyzed and compared with those of 772 male patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  CHD in females was characterized by later occurrence, frequently complicated with diabetes mellitus and blood lipid disorder, and rather serious coronary lesion, mainly the multi- or double-branch lesion, involving the anterior descend branch, right coronary artery and convolution branch; with the often encountered syndrome factors and their combinations of qi deficiency, blood stasis, yin deficiency, blood stasis due to qi deficiency,deficiency of both qi and yin,turbid phlegm, yang-deficiency, etc.; the figures of tongue and pulse were generally dark-red or dark-purple or pale-red colored corpulent tongue proper, with waterless yellow or less coating, even without coating, cyanosed varicose sublingual veins,thin-weak or thin- rapid pulse.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Female CHD has its special clinical feature, coronary specialty and Chinese medicine syndrome characteristics. Proper treatment methods for it are supplementing qi, activating blood, nourishing yin in dominance, with dissolving phlegm and accessing yang as accessory.
authors.affiliation: Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Qing-Yong
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yun-Ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D016709:Yin-Yang