中医药防治颈动脉粥样硬化斑块的几个关键问题OA

Carotid atherosclerotic plaques,as a key precursor pathology of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases,pose a severe challenge to public health due to their high prevalence and increasing trend.The therapeutic role of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)in this field has been previously overlooked.Guided by the concept of"holism",TCM aims to control risk factors through"pre-vention before disease",delay plaque progression through"preventing transformation after disease",and improve disease prognosis through"preventing recurrence after recovery",thereby forming a full-cycle health management system.However,TCM in this field currently faces core issues such as lack of standardization,scarcity of high-quality clinical evidence,and insufficient depth in basic re-search.In the future,the potential of TCM in the prevention and treatment of this disease can be fully realized through various approa-ches,including improving the standardization system of TCM,promoting high-quality clinical evaluation studies,and interpreting TCM principles with the aid of modern scientific technology,thereby providing support for comprehensive chronic disease prevention and man-agement.