二、JACC编辑部发表评论 让衰竭的心脏更加强劲:中国传统医学给我们的启示 (Editorial Comment—Cardiotonic Modulation in Heart Failure: Insights from Traditional Chinese Medicine) 现在这项富有前景的研究表明:利用最新科技研究传统中药活性成分开启了心力衰竭治疗协同作用的希望之门。这是一个挑战,对此我们应该热烈拥抱这个挑战!(Yet even at present, the promising results reported by Li and colleagues may have already opened the opportunity to explore with the latest technologies how synergistic interactions among active TCM ingredients can benefit the syndrome of heart failure. This is a challenge that we should all warmly embrace.)
三、论文在线发表后,美国《今日医学要闻》刊登评论: 复方中药有助于心力衰竭治疗 ChineseHerb Mix Helps Boost Failing Hearts 在过去的几十年,药理学治疗在心衰竭治疗方面取得的突破性进展并不多,我们应该高兴建立严格的临床试验,可以客观地科学地评价中医药。克利夫兰诊所的医学博士Tang 和Huang在期刊社论上发表此评论。 "As few pharmacologic therapeutics havecrossed the threshold in delivering much-needed breakthroughs in the field ofheart failure over the past decades, the investigators should be congratulatedin conducting a rigorous clinical trial that encompasses all the elements of anobjective scientific evaluation of this traditional Chinese medicine patentdrug," wrote W. H. Wilson Tang, MD and Yanming Huang, MD PhD, from theCleveland Clinic, in an accompanying editorial.
四、《英国心脏病杂志》在线述评 早期临床研究显示中草药为心衰治疗带来新希望 Chinese herbal medicine shows promise in HF in early trial--JUNE 4, 2013. Marlene Busko 这一振奋人心的循证医学研究结果为临床一线医师治疗慢性心衰提供了新的选择,芪苈强心胶囊成为我国第一个具有循证医学研究证据疗效确切的治疗慢性心衰的中成药。芪苈强心胶囊治疗慢性心衰循证医学研究所产生的重大国际影响,为中医药走向国际化奠定了基础。