Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure Complicated with Anxiety and Depression Using Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
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Keywords

Chronic heart failure
Anxiety
Depression
TCM therapy
Western medicine therapy

DOI

10.26689/jcnr.v6i4.3919

Submitted : 2022-06-28
Accepted : 2022-07-13
Published : 2022-07-28

Abstract

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the terminal stage of various heart diseases, and is the main cause of death from cardiovascular disease. In recent years, the prevalence of CHF combined with anxiety and depressive state has shown an upward trend, and this paper was aimed to provide a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of CHF combined with anxiety and depression using Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine.

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