Mr. Ge and Mr. Liu are both in their 50s, and carotid artery plaques were found 3 years ago, both of which are unstable plaques.
He was then advised to live healthily and take statin medications for a long time.
3 years later, Mr. Ge reviewed the carotid ultrasound and found that the plaque had become a stable plaque; but Mr. Liu was not so lucky, and Mr. Liu was admitted to the hospital for sudden cerebral infarction.
Why did Mr. Liu's plaque rupture to form a blood clot, and he had died of cerebral infarction?
Because Mr. Liu has taken medicine for a year, he feels that there is no change in his feelings, and he is not willing to cooperate with a healthy life, he should eat and drink, he should play with fat, and he is not willing to take statin drugs. As a result, the plaque grows and the plaque ruptures to form a blood clot, triggering cerebral infarction.
Questions about plaque, today we popularize:
First, can it eliminate plaque?
When almost all people learn that they have vascular plaques, their first reaction is how to get rid of these plaques?
Just like our home water pipe for a long time, there will be a lot of water rust and dirt inside, so if you want to remove these dirt and water rust thoroughly, the only way is to change a water pipe.
However, the blood vessels in our whole body, especially the blood vessels of the heart, cerebral blood vessels, etc., cannot be replaced.
So is there a drug to take that can eliminate these plaques? Or is there a nanobot that enters the human body and cleans up all this vascular garbage?
Until now, no drug can completely clean up the vascular plaque, because the vascular plaque is formed over the years, it is grown together with the inner wall of the blood vessel, and it is impossible to remove the vascular plaque with drugs. This is for peripheral blood vessels, such as arterial plaques in the extremities, carotid plaques, and in severe cases, this part of the severe plaque can be removed by surgery. But plaques of heart vessels and cerebrovascular vessels are not possible to surgically remove plaques.
Besides, nanorobots are still in science fiction movies, and there is no such nanobot that cleans up blood vessel plaques in reality, and may be able to achieve it in the future.
Second, a very small number of people may be able to "shrink" in the short term
Since we can't remove or eliminate vascular plaques, then we retreat to the second place, can we shrink the plaques, or reverse the plaques?
Strictly speaking, only a very small number of people adhere to a comprehensive healthy lifestyle: quit smoking and alcohol + control diet + weight control + stick to exercise + necessary medications, then a very small number of people may shrink this plaque for a period of time.
However, this reduction is not from a large plaque to a small plaque as everyone understands, generally speaking, the volume of this plaque will not shrink, but the nature of the plaque may change.
Plaques are like buns on the inner wall of a blood vessel, one with a thin skin and a large filling, and the other with a thick skin and a small filling.
1. Small patches with thin skin and filling
This kind of plaque skin is naturally easy to rupture, but in the case of cold stimulation, strenuous exercise, smoking and drinking, irritability and force, etc., the skin of the bun is broken, and the filling inside is exposed, then it will form a blood clot, block the blood vessels, and form a myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction.
2. Thick skin filled with small patches
This is easy to understand, the bun skin is thick, the filling is small, then it is not easy to rupture, it is not easy to rupture, it is not easy to form a blood clot, it is not easy to have myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction.
Therefore, in the strict sense of reduction, it is to reduce the patches with thin skin and large fillings into small patches with thick skin.
In the long run, the plaque itself is definitely getting bigger and bigger, because one of the factors that form the plaque is age, and the older the age, the relatively larger the plaque will gradually increase, so in theory the plaque will only get bigger. It's just that some people grow faster, and some people grow slower.
Third, most of the people who are actively formally controlled
When we find plaques, if we can adopt a positive attitude and the right approach, then most people's plaques can be controlled. Or strictly speaking, the plaque is almost unchanging, or it gets very, very slowly, and that's the best outcome for most people.
Because after we find the plaque, after a healthy life, and regular drugs (usually choose statin drugs), after control, the plaque is not aggravated, then our treatment is effective. Then the condition is under control and will not continue to progress.
Therefore, after finding plaques, we must first change the unhealthy lifestyle, develop healthy living habits, and decide whether to take statin drugs under the guidance of a doctor.
Only in this way can plaque be controlled, further cardiovascular stenosis can be avoided, and the risk of myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction can be reduced.
Fourth, people who do not control plaque
If you find plaques, do not go to a healthy life, continue to smoke and drink, continue to eat and drink, continue not to exercise, continue to be obese, or should take medicine and not take medicine, the control of three highs does not control three highs.
Then the plaque will continue to grow, or even rapidly become larger, find narrowing of blood vessels, cause ischemia, and even rupture of the plaque, form a thrombus, trigger myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction.
Different attitudes, different outcomes, this is the two people, both found the plaque, why Mr. Ge's plaque was controlled, and Mr. Liu's plaque became heavier and heavier and blood clots occurred.