title: Chinese herbal medicines and chronic kidney disease: a positive outcome in a large patient study in Taiwan.
abstract: The worth of traditional Chinese herbal medicines for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients remains in debate. Lin et al. used a research database in Taiwan to identify almost 25,000 stage 3-5 newly diagnosed CKD patients who, after diagnosis, did or did not use prescribed Chinese herbal medicines for CKD. Reduced risk of end-stage kidney disease from specific traditional medicines warrants reflection on a CKD therapy resource that is largely ignored by Western medicine.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Kidney Disease Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.|Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Glenda C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Gobe
authors.affiliation: Centre for Kidney Disease Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.|Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.|Nephrology Center, The Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Kunyu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shen