中国结合医学杂志（英文版）Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine

Author Name	Affiliation	E-mail
Zhang Xiao-hui	The Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine of TCM, Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of TCM, 100700, Beijing	zxh2001@hotmail.com
Wang Shuo-ren	The Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine of TCM, Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of TCM, 100700, Beijing

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Abstract:

Previously, in managing hypertension, a chronic disease, physicians always paid their attention to control patients' blood pressure for avoiding the damage of target organs, such as heart, brain and kidney, but neglected the effect on hypertension patients' quality of life (QOL), which includes: (1) the symptoms induced by hypertension itself; (2) the discomfort in patients' daily life and habits brought about by antihypertensive therapy; (3) the adverse-effects of hypotensive drugs, such as headache, dizziness, cough and drowsiness; (4) label effect due to diagnosing hypertension.