Pathologically, OA is characterized by simultaneous catabolic and anabolic processes which cause changes in all joint tissues. IntroductionĪs a chronic progressive joint disease, osteoarthritis inflicts harm to the physical and mental health of the middle-aged and the elderly patients. Besides, the therapeutic effects resulting from a variety of combinations of these constituents are quite different. This study presented that the TCM constituents complement one another. We also found that different traditional drug pairs were associated with different laboratory indexes, and drug combinations could better optimize laboratory indexes. We obtained four groups of drug combination clusters by similarity measure and 11 pairs of highly connected drugs by association rules, which are cardinal drug combinations in the prescription for the treatment of OA. After applying a random walk model, while revealing the compatibility among different components of TCM, their therapeutic efficacy against OA is analyzed. Concluding, a random walk model was constructed to assess drug efficacy. On basis of the propensity score methods, the evaluation displayed that, compared with single drug, the drug group increased ESR, CRP, C3, C4, IgG, and IgA more efficiently. The method of association rule analysis is used to recognize the compatibility between the components.
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The similarity measure method was used to investigate the commonly used drugs for the treatment of osteoarthritis. We summarize common couplet medicines utilized for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Due to the lack of depth and internal relationship in the calculation results of TCM compatibility law data mining methods such as statistics and frequency analysis, we use a variety of multidimensional complex network methods that can efficaciously find the compatibility law of TCM, including similarity measure, graphical visualization of network diagram, random walking, and propensity score methods. On basis of an in-house database consisting of clinical records of 13,083 OA patients, the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was divided into 4 categories of medicines on the basis of the curative properties of herbs. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degressive and complex disease which is a growing public health problem on a global scale.