There are many patients with coronary heart disease around us, so do you know why coronary heart disease in the United States is so well controlled? Did you use any tricks? Let's talk together.
When patients with coronary heart disease are treated in the hospital, doctors will prescribe a cholesterol-lowering drug called statins. This drug is very important for the treatment of coronary heart disease, which can greatly reduce the possibility of recurrence of myocardial infarction. The occurrence of coronary heart disease is very harmful to our health. If the disease is controlled and treated in time, it will also endanger our lives. Therefore, we must do a good job in the prevention of diseases in our lives. Coronary heart disease is the abbreviation of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease and the most common cardiovascular disease in the elderly. The pathogenesis of coronary heart disease is not completely clear at present. Cholesterol, especially LDL cholesterol (what do people call it? Bad cholesterol? Deposition on the wall of blood vessels causes lumen stenosis or obstruction, which is an important inducement and key link.
Although doctors advise patients to take statins for a long time, for various reasons, many patients will have the idea of reducing or stopping the drug. Experts from Cleveland Medical Center, the best heart hospital in the United States, pointed out that stopping statins is a dangerous decision and may have serious consequences. Obesity leads to hyperlipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other well-known hazards, and these diseases all have a common feature of vascular occlusion and sclerosis. The accumulation and thickening of human blood lipids lead to accelerated aging of blood vessels, hardening and blockage of blood vessels, and finally lead to problems such as three highs, high uric acid, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Statin is not a medicine, it is a medicine. There are three generations at present: the first generation includes lovastatin, simvastatin and pravastatin; The second generation includes fluvastatin; The third generation includes atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and pitavastatin.
It is difficult for patients with high triglyceride to meet the standard with statins alone, so they need to switch to or combine with low triglyceride lipid-lowering drugs. Some patients think that I can't control my diet or even overeat after taking the medicine anyway. Some patients need to take several times the normal dose or combine two or more lipid-lowering drugs if they want to reach the standard. Some patients feel troublesome and always cut corners. The arms and elbows are at 90 degrees, the trunk is straight, the head, shoulders, crotch and ankles are kept at the same level as far as possible, the abdominal muscles exert force, the spine is elongated, the eyes look at the ground, and uniform breathing is maintained. A recent study on nearly 60,000 patients over the age of 66 found that within two years after myocardial infarction, nearly 20% of patients stopped taking statins themselves, and nearly 40% of patients did not take drugs according to regulations, or the dosage or frequency of taking drugs was insufficient.
Strengthen diet control and appropriately increase the amount of activity, especially for overweight patients who need to lose weight such as hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. Should the high-risk patients be 5? Start taking it on the 28th day and continue taking it for at least 6 months. It can also be used to control angina pectoris, arrhythmia and hypertension as needed. Generally, statins need to be taken before going to bed. Atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and pitavastatin can be taken at any time of the day. What range should patients with coronary heart disease control our cholesterol? This question is more important. But it's hard to answer. We often see that the normal reference value of blood lipid test report in each hospital is different. Does taking statins for a long time have side effects? The most common side effects of statins are muscle injury and liver injury, followed by the common side effects of other systems, such as digestive system symptoms, headache, dizziness, etc., which are generally mild. These potential side effects only occur in a few patients, and the incidence rate is relatively low.
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