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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Dilemmas in Elderly Diabetes and Clinical Practice Involving Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Chongxiang Xue, Ying Chen, Yuntian Bi, Xiaofei Yang, Keyu Chen, Cheng Tang, Xiaolin Tong, Linhua Zhao, Han Wang

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Chongxiang XueGraduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3020-7681
Ying ChenGraduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1052-1868
Yuntian BiSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China.
Xiaofei YangGraduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5851-0116
Keyu ChenInstitute of Metabolic Diseases, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.
Cheng TangNational Key Laboratory of Efficacy and Mechanism on Chinese Medicine for Metabolic Diseases, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
Xiaolin TongInstitute of Metabolic Diseases, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.
Linhua ZhaoInstitute of Metabolic Diseases, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.
Han WangSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.

Funding

High Level Chinese Medical Hospital Promotion Project HLCMHPP2023084National Natural Science Foundation of China 82305192Scientific Research Funds for HuTian Visiting Professors at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine 2023-XJ-KYQD-006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes is a widespread chronic disease that occurs mainly in the elderly population. Due to the difference in pathophysiology between elderly and young patients, the current clinical practice to treat elderly patients with anti-diabetes medications still faces some challenges and dilemmas, such as the urgent need for early diagnosis and prevention, and an imbalance between restricted dietary intake and the risk of undernutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers various treatment regimens that are actively utilized in the field of diabetes management. Through multiple targets and multiple pathways, TCM formulas, medicinal herbs, and active natural products enhance the efficacy of diabetes prevention and diabetes control measures, simplify complex medication management, and improve common symptoms and common diabetic complications in elderly people. Historically, natural products have played a key role in material composition analysis of TCM and mechanism interpretation to enable drug discovery. However, there have been few conclusions on this topic. This review summarizes the development of TCM for the prevention and management of diabetes in elderly people, existing evidence-based clinical practices, and prospects for future development.

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clinical evidencedilemmaselderly diabetesmanagementnatural productstraditional medicine

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PMID39065801
PMCPMC11279884

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