Uncle Lu himself has no cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but he has high blood pressure for many years. A few years ago, he found that his blood lipid was a little high. So I don't know who told me that the elderly should take aspirin to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so I started taking aspirin for several years. Actually, Uncle Lu doesn't need to take aspirin at all.
It is completely wrong for the elderly to take aspirin every day to prevent coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction! Aspirin can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but it is not suitable for all elderly people. It can even be said that for the vast majority of the elderly, as long as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases do not occur, aspirin is definitely not needed for prevention, because that will only increase the risk of aspirin bleeding. ?
First of all, we make sure that patients with definite cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction, need to take aspirin no matter how old they are and as long as they have no contraindications. However, if cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have not yet occurred and you just want to take aspirin to prevent, for example, coronary heart disease, then it is not suitable for everyone, not to mention the elderly have to take aspirin to prevent coronary heart disease.
Guides and experts * * * Let's take a look at what the American guidelines say, that is, not only the elderly do not need aspirin to prevent cardiovascular diseases, but also patients with high risk of bleeding.
Some people say that you only look at what Americans do, so let's take a look at the knowledge of our experts: the advice given is that aspirin should not be used by the elderly, nor should it be used by people with high risk of bleeding. This is a very clear consensus.
In other words, both Chinese and American guidelines suggest that it is unnecessary for the elderly to take aspirin to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Of course, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have occurred and must be taken.
So how do the elderly prevent coronary heart disease? In fact, for all people to prevent coronary heart disease, we must achieve healthy life+and control the three highs. We know that coronary heart disease is atherosclerosis of arteries and vessels in the heart, which causes plaque and leads to vascular stenosis. This is called coronary heart disease. Then the essence of preventing coronary heart disease is to prevent plaque aggravation, so what causes plaque aggravation? ?
These atherosclerosis, that is, plaque, that is, what we like to call vascular garbage, as well as high-salt high-sugar high-oil diet, obesity, sedentary, smoking and drinking, pressure of staying up late, uncontrolled heredity, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, the more these factors, the greater the possibility of atherosclerosis. Therefore, to prevent atherosclerosis, it is necessary to do a good job as much as possible, live a healthy life, find the three highs, actively and formally control, stay away from alcohol and tobacco, control weight, insist on exercise, and eat less salt, oil and sugar, and so on.
Of course, at present, for people younger than, if there are high-risk factors, it is recommended to take aspirin after scoring, but it must be scored professionally, and the guide clearly points out that to prevent coronary heart disease, we must not only rely on aspirin, but also live a healthy life!