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Chapter 51 – Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Management of Patients with Heart Disease

Edzard Ernst

  COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: DEFINITIONS, PREVALENCE, AND REASONS FOR USE, 1042
  COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, 1042
  CORONARY HEART DISEASE, 1042
  Treatment, 1042
  Prevention and Risk Factor Normalization, 1043

  OTHER TYPES OF HEART DISEASE, 1046
  CONCLUSIONS, 1046
  REFERENCES, 1046
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Definitions, Prevalence, and Reasons for Use

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) includes a range of therapeutic approaches that have little in common with each other. Thus, CAM is far from easy to define. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition is used: “CAM is diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention which complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine.”[1] Table 51-1provides short …