动脉粥样硬化(AS)病变进展过程比较缓慢,治疗存在很多困难,效果常不显著,判断疗效缺乏理想的无创伤性的定量方法。本世纪三十年代以来,国外学者对AS进行了大量的科学研究,文献浩如烟海。我国自五十年代起,对于应用传统医药防治AS进行了不少中西结合的临床和实验研究。 The progression of atherosclerosis (AS) lesions is relatively slow, there are many difficulties in the treatment, the effect is often not significant, and the lack of an ideal non-invasive quantitative method to judge the efficacy. Since the 1930s of this century, foreign scholars have conducted a lot of scientific research on AS and they have a great deal of literature. In China since the 1950s, there have been many clinical and experimental studies on the application of traditional medicine in the prevention and treatment of AS.