Symptoms of Intermittent Claudication and Decreased Walking Tolerance in Patients Suffering from Peripheral Arterial Disease can be Improved with a Simple Herbal Supplement

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript describes the encouraging results obtained using the combination of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, Salviae miltiorrhizae radix and Puerariae lobatae radix for treating peripheral arterial disease. This is an exciting example of evidence-based specific supplement of ethnopharmacological origin. 

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of high interest for the Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access.  

 

There are a few minor errors in the manuscript (already corrected in the galley proof). The common ones are – 

·             Omission of “,” in many places, e.g., after “which” and “occurred” in the 3^rd sentence of the 1^st paragraph in the Introduction section. 

·             Omission of “the” in a few places, e.g., before “treatment” and “placebo” in the last sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of Introduction in the Abstract section. 

·       The other errors are listed below – 

In the Abstract section – 

  Under Introduction – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·             In the 2^nd sentence, “Three clinical trials: viz. on patients with coronary arterial obstruction; hypertension; and post-menopausal border-line…” must be replaced with “Three clinical trials, viz. on patients with coronary arterial obstruction, hypertension, and post-menopausal borderline…”, and “hyperlipidaemia” is misspelled. 

  Under Discussion – 

·             In the last sentence, “role” must be replaced with “roles”, and “ant fibrosis” must be replaced with “anti-fibrosis”. 

  Under Conclusion and Outlook – 

·             In the 1^st sentence, “supplement” must be replaced with “supplements”, and “function” must be replaced with “functions”. 

·             In the 2^nd sentence, “testify” must be replaced with “test”. 

In the Introduction section – 

  In the 7^th paragraph – 

·             In the 1^st sentence, “population based” must be hyphenated, and “were” after “12 months” must be replaced with “was”. 

Under The Present Study – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·             In the 2^nd sentence, “medium sized” must be hyphenated, and “manifested” must be replaced with “manifest”. 

Under Design of Clinical Trial – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·             “placebo control” must be replaced with “placebo-controlled”. 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·             In the last sentence, “yet” must be replaced with “any”. 

Under Treatment – 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·             In the 1^st sentence, “500 mgm” must be replaced with “500mg”. 

Under Statistical Analysis – 

·             In the 1^st sentence, “increase” must be replaced with “increased”. 

For Table 2 – 

·             In the legend, “24 weeks treatment” must be replaced with “24-week treatment”. 

·             In the Table, in the 2^nd row under Patients, “2” must be in superscript. 

In the Discussion section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·             In the last sentence, “a” must be inserted before “much”, and “involvements” must be replaced with “involvement”. 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·             In the 2^nd sentence, “;” after “spasm” must be replaced with “,”. 

·             In the 3^rd sentence, “a” before “short term” must be replaced with “the”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·             In the last sentence, “varieties” must be replaced with “variety”. 

In the Conclusion and Outlook section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·             In the 6^th sentence, “over utilization” must be written as a single word. 

 

Author Info

Chook Ping Kwok Chi Yui Timothy Ping-Chung Leung Woo Kam Sang Yan Ping Yen Bryan

Corresponding Author

Ping-Chung Leung
Centre for Clinical Trials on Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Wed 12, Feb 2020
Accepted: Mon 02, Mar 2020
Published: Mon 22, Jun 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Ping-Chung Leung. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.01.10