Efficacy and Safety of a Traditional Chinese Herbal Formula Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction for Hypertension

integrative medicine in bal medicine for PBCR recognized in treating Editor: Kazuo Hanaoka. Received: September 4, 2015; revised: September 23, 2015; accepted: September 26, 2015. From the Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China (PW); Department of Cardiology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China (XX); and Department of Biological Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (SL). Correspondence to Xingjiang Xiong, MD, Department of Cardiology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beixiange 5#, Xicheng District, Beijing 100053, China (e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]). The study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Project of China (No. 81403375). XX conceived the study, performed the meta-analysis, interpreted the results, and wrote the article. PW and SL separately conducted the literature searches, data extraction, methodologic quality assessment, and produced the tables and pictures. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript. The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Copyright # 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ISSN: 0025-7974 DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000001850