Tag: Department of Cardiovascular Internal Medicine

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Reserpine, an old antihypertensive drug, has too many side effects to take?

Dr. Clove once said what are the commonly used antihypertensive drugs. Some readers found that among the five categories of drugs, why is there not the one I eat? Here comes their question: How is the effect of Zhenju antihypertensive tablets? Is reserpine a big side effect? Can apocynum venetum be eaten for a long time? Hypotension 0 heard that the side effects are very big, can you still eat? The types of drugs you asked belong to traditional fixed compound preparations and old antihypertensive drugs. Most of them are a combination of hydrochlorothiazide, reserpine, dihydrazine or clonidine, plus some sedative, traditional Chinese medicine, calcium, magnesium and potassium preparations and vitamin auxiliary components. Why do many people use it, but Read More …

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How does blood pressure rise?

In life, many hypertension friends often ask such a question when seeking medical treatment: [Why does my blood pressure rise? ] To be honest, At the present stage of medical development, no medical bull can tell you exactly the specific reason for the increase in blood pressure. In order to [cover up] our ignorance, we use [primary hypertension] to refer to 90% ~ 95% hypertension. The remaining 5% ~ 10% hypertension, we find that they are caused by other diseases, and correspondingly call them [secondary hypertension]. Although we have not yet been able to find out the cause of hypertension for every friend with hypertension, in terms of physiology, the medical field is continuously deepening its research on how normal Read More …

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Antihypertensive drugs are best taken at this time.

Every friend with hypertension knows that it is very important to take medicine on time. How to calculate on time? Most of the drugs, what when take better effect? Now let’s understand this problem and talk about some other drugs by the way. Antihypertensive drugs are taken in what, according to the change of blood pressure. Generally speaking, people’s blood pressure fluctuates in a state of [two peaks and one valley] within 24 hours: The two peaks are the highest at 9: 00 ~ 11: 00 and 16: 00 ~ 18: 00. Yigu: It began to decline slowly from 18: 00 to the lowest from 2: 00 to 3: 00 a.m. the next day. The blood pressure change curve in Read More …

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Antihypertensive diet, remember this phrase is enough!

The occurrence of hypertension is closely related to unhealthy diet. If you have hypertension, if you stick to a healthy diet for a long time, it will be a big help to reduce blood pressure. I’d like to introduce you to a diet against hypertension, called [DASH Diet], which has won the title of the best diet of the year in the United States for six consecutive years. Long-term adherence to DASH diet can reduce systolic blood pressure by 7 ~ 12 mmHg, which is a powerful helper to control blood pressure. In addition, it can also prevent osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. What should I do with such a good diet? After all, the eating habits of Read More …

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Hyperlipidemia

Manifestations of hyperlipidemia Hyperlipidemia is often asymptomatic and is not easily detected by people. It is often only during blood tests that dyslipidemia, elevation of triglyceride, cholesterol, low density lipoprotein and decrease of high density lipoprotein are found. Some patients with increased blood lipid may have xanthoma on the skin, but xanthoma in other parts (tendon, elbow, knee, hip or ankle, etc.) is relatively hidden and not easy to detect except xanthoma in eyelid. Treatment of Hyperlipidemia 1. Lifestyle interventions It mainly includes diet and exercise adjustment. Specific measures include: Reduce saturated fats and trans fatty acids, Reduce total energy: Encourage intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the form of fish or fish oil capsules, Phytosterol supplements should be selected Read More …

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U.S. Dietary guidelines no longer restrict cholesterol, is it possible to stutter meat?

After the release of the latest dietary guidelines in the United States, the most noticeable change is the deletion of the statement in the previous edition that [no more than 300 mg cholesterol per day]. So many people think, is cholesterol harmless to health? At that time, [the scientific community finally admitted the mistake of 40 years] [cholesterol is useless and harmful, and it is no longer good or bad] emerged one after another. Although most medical experts are dismissive of this out-of-context statement, many ordinary people are still at a loss: [This news is too good, I can eat meat without scruple! Has the past scientific verification been denied? [Even some conspiracy theories have come out [Do Americans want Read More …

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A self-control guide that teaches you to give up [self-control]

Have you ever met and hated some [self-control guides] late, wept bitterly, and ambitiously planned to start a grand [self-control plan], looking forward to [correcting the past]? Then, a few weeks later, are you happy to find out: what, what, change, change, all, no, there, hair, life? You still didn’t refrain from getting up in the middle of the night to eat food taken late at night. You still haven’t finished the task of getting up early five days a week to memorize words. You still can’t help turning on the computer to watch Song Zhongji Oba drooling and licking the screen. … … So today, let’s find another way out and try to solve the problem of self-control. For Read More …

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The Most Widely Used Antihypertensive Drugs-Dipine

Antihypertensive drugs are good helpers to help hypertension patients control blood pressure and avoid cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications. There are several types of commonly used antihypertensive drugs. In our country, one of them is the most widely used, called calcium channel blocker, or CCB for short. Since most of these drugs end with [dipine], they are also called [dipine antihypertensive drugs], such as nifedipine, amlodipine, levamlodipine, nimodipine, nitrendipine, felodipine, etc. Why is the horizon widely used? This is related to the characteristics of drugs. These drugs rely on calcium ions to play a antihypertensive role. Myocardial contraction and vasoconstriction depend on calcium ions entering myocardial cells and vascular smooth muscle cells. Vasoconstriction and myocardial cell contraction require a large amount Read More …

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Accurate Guided Antihypertensive Drugs-ACEI and ARB

The 2014 US Guidelines for Adult Hypertension Treatment (JNC8) recommend four categories of antihypertensive drugs: thiazide diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) and calcium channel antagonists (CCB). Among them, ACEI and ARB drugs play a very important role in the treatment of hypertension. From the doctor’s point of view, they are [precision guided weapons] among antihypertensive drugs. The functions of these two drugs are somewhat similar. Let’s introduce them together. ACEI antihypertensive drugs are usually named after [XX], such as captopril, enalapril, fosinopril, lisinopril, peridopril, etc. ARB is usually called [sartan] antihypertensive drugs, including telmisartan, losartan, valsartan, candesartan, irbesartan, etc. Precision guided hypotension The antihypertensive effect of these two drugs is related to [angiotensin]. It is Read More …

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Four major measures, the effect of lowering blood pressure revealed!

Speaking of which measures can lower blood pressure in life, I believe every friend can say a few, such as eating less salt and exercising more. But do you know how effective these measures are in lowering blood pressure? Dr. Clove found the data of the most authoritative organization, the American Heart Association (AHA), which listed 4 effective antihypertensive measures and their antihypertensive effects. Let’s have a look! However, I would like to remind you that these measures cannot replace drug therapy. Friends who are taking drugs to control blood pressure must not stop taking drugs just because they have taken these measures, which will delay treatment and backfire. Weight loss Effect: For overweight people, systolic blood pressure decreased by Read More …