People who take this medicine cannot eat fruit casually!

Many people like to eat grapefruit, which is sweet and sour, juicy, nutritious and delicious when squeezed into fruit juice. But do you know that some people are not suitable for eating grapefruit, such as those who are taking statins to reduce lipid. Let’s talk about popular science, grapefruit and statins [feud]. How did grapefruit and statins get involved? Pomelo contains a substance called furanocoumarin, which can slow down the metabolic decomposition of statins in the body. It can be imagined that the longer the drug exists in the body, the longer the time it takes to play its role will also increase, the effect of lowering cholesterol will increase, and some of the side effects originally possessed will also Read More …

How important is reducing blood lipid to patients with coronary heart disease?

The incidence of cardiovascular diseases in China has soared to an outrageous extent. Coronary heart disease, as one of the most influential diseases, has also attracted increasing attention. Especially when celebrities and leaders fall down due to myocardial infarction caused by coronary heart disease, the masses have a more perceptual understanding of coronary heart disease. As a result, many people began to take antithrombotic drugs (such as aspirin) and 7788 proprietary Chinese medicines after diagnosis of coronary heart disease. However, the use of one drug has been neglected by many patients with coronary heart disease, and that is statins and lipid-lowering drugs. A large number of them stopped using statins because their blood lipid was normal. In their eyes, statins Read More …