Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The Potential Benefit of Complementary/Alternative Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases


Publishing date
13 Apr 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
14 Oct 2011

1Cardiovascular Center, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

2UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, Santa Monica, CA, USA

3Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

4National Integrative Medicine Center for Cardiovascular Disease, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China


The Potential Benefit of Complementary/Alternative Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases

Description

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) prevalence continues to increase, and it is still the number one killer so far. In 2002, nearly 17 million deaths all over the world were attributable to CVDs, which accounted for almost 30% of the total deaths. Despite treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and many other conventional medicines, CVDs patients are still confronted with certain risk of recurrent acute cardiovascular events, readmission to the hospital, and unfavorable quality of life. In recent years, more and more clinicians have successfully applied complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) in CVDs prevention and treatment based on standardized conventional therapy. Nevertheless, the role of CAM in CVDs still needs more clinical evidence and definite mechanism of actions.

Therefore, we invite authors to submit original research and review articles that seek to provide rigorous evidence favoring the potential benefit of CAM in CVDs (including cerebrovascular diseases). We are particularly interested in articles of randomized controlled trial (RCT) and systematic review and meta-analysis, as well as in vivo or in vitro research to explore the exact mechanism of actions of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • RCT of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs, especially multicenter, large-scale RCTs with follow-up clinical data
  • Systematic review and/or meta-analysis of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs
  • Data analysis of cohort study or large registry study to confirm the benefit of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs
  • Clinical practice and experience of how to integrate CAM with conventional medicine in preventing and treating CVDs
  • Experimental research to elucidate mechanisms of action of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs
  • Research on herb-drug interaction during prevention and treatment of CVDs
  • Perspective or commentary article of CAM in preventing and treating CVDs

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 417387
  • - Review Article

Traditional Chinese Herbal Products for Coronary Heart Disease: An Overview of Cochrane Reviews

Yu Qiu | Hao Xu | Dazhuo Shi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 131830
  • - Research Article

Qiliqiangxin Affects L Type Current in the Normal and Hypertrophied Rat Heart

Yidong Wei | Xiaoyu Liu | ... | Muktanand Vikash Jhummon
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 567872
  • - Research Article

Refined Qingkailing Protects MCAO Mice from Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Apoptosis with a Broad Time Window

Fafeng Cheng | Xianggen Zhong | ... | Qingguo Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 837194
  • - Review Article

A Study of Prognosis, Outcome, and Changing Tendency of Hospitalized AMI Patients in Beijing Third-Grade A-Level Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospitals from 1999 to 2008

Ju-Ju Shang | Hui Shi | ... | Hong-xu Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 972106
  • - Research Article

Design and Methods for a Pilot Study of a Phone-Delivered, Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher | James Carmody | ... | Ira Ockene
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 714517
  • - Research Article

Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation of TCM Syndromes of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease in China

Yi Ren | Minzhou Zhang | ... | Lei Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 717123
  • - Research Article

Cardioprotective Effect of the Compound Yangshen Granule in Rat Models with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Xie Ming | Wang Tongshen | ... | Zhao Ronghua
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 508683
  • - Research Article

The Evaluation of Chinese Therapeutic Food for the Treatment of Moderate Dyslipidemia

Shu Sun | Hong Xu | Lawrence Ngeh
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 698531
  • - Research Article

Drug Target Prediction Based on the Herbs Components: The Study on the Multitargets Pharmacological Mechanism of Qishenkeli Acting on the Coronary Heart Disease

Yong Wang | Zhongyang Liu | ... | Wei Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 363845
  • - Research Article

Berberine Improves Insulin Sensitivity by Inhibiting Fat Store and Adjusting Adipokines Profile in Human Preadipocytes and Metabolic Syndrome Patients

Jing Yang | Jinhua Yin | ... | Ming Li
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