Antihypertensive drugs have been proven to cause cancer? Western medicine to lower blood pressure is a big scam? tell you the truth

"Anti-hypertensive drugs cause cancer, and Western medicines to lower blood pressure are also deceptive and useless."

This is the news received by Xiaojiu backstage. The 58-year-old fan is a 5-year-old hypertensive patient who has been taking antihypertensive drugs. A pulmonary nodule was found in the right lung a year ago. During the re-examination this year, he was hospitalized due to the discovery of a shadow in the lung. The nodule was a mixed ground-glass nodule that had been growing and was highly suspected by doctors to be malignant. So he thought that his tumor was inseparable from antihypertensive drugs.

Patients with high blood pressure need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time. The safety of antihypertensive drugs always attracts special attention. Antihypertensive drugs cause cancer? Is this statement true?

1. Antihypertensive drugs cause cancer? where does the saying come from

There are actually many studies on this aspect, among which a 10-year "Lancet • Oncology" study has attracted much attention.

The study analyzed 61,590 patients in five clinical trials and found that the ARB group was more likely to have an increased risk of new cancers than the control group.

Shortly thereafter, the U.S. FDA issued an announcement stating that it did not recognize the claim that ARB increases cancer risk . For hypertensive patients, the benefits of long-term use of ABR far outweigh the potential risks.

In addition, an article in the British Medical Journal in 2018 also pointed out that after comparing with sartan antihypertensive drugs, it was found that the incidence of lung cancer was 14% higher after using Puli antihypertensive drugs for more than 5 years.

Liu Zhijun, chief physician of Beijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, pointed out that this study did not receive much attention and recognition at the beginning of its publication. Then, due to the media hyping the carcinogenic risk of "pulli-type" drugs, they were intimidated by taking such drugs. The patients who pressed the medicine also caused public panic for a period of time.

On the one hand, the data of this study pointed out that 1,000 patients took medicine for 1 year, and 1.6 lung cancer patients would appear if they took Puli drugs, and 1.2 lung cancer patients would appear in those taking sartans. This incidence rate is very low.

In addition, ACEI drugs have the side effect of dry cough. If a person with high blood pressure frequently has a dry cough while taking the drug, they will find the cause and do relevant lung examinations. Targeted examinations will naturally increase the detection rate of lung cancer.

In other words, the side effects of dry cough of Puli-type antihypertensive drugs lead to the examination of lung cancer, which may also be one of the explanations for the data difference between the two drugs.

Of course, there is currently no clear evidence to prove that puli antihypertensive drugs will increase the risk of lung cancer, and to prove the causal relationship between the two.

Before there is no further research evidence, hypertensive patients can take the medicine as prescribed by the doctor , and must not stop the medicine at will, otherwise the blood pressure fluctuates too much, but it will seriously damage the heart, brain, kidney and other important organs.

Second, is Western medicine a lie to lower blood pressure?

Most people with high blood pressure are asymptomatic, but they also take antihypertensive drugs. Therefore, many people think that if there are no symptoms, they should not take medicines, let alone take medicines for life, and medicines also have side effects. This must be a scam.

Asymptomatic hypertension without treatment? This is the wrong idea! There is no clear relationship between the level of blood pressure and the severity of symptoms, especially for some long-term hypertensive patients, because the body has gradually adapted to the symptoms of hypertension due to the long period of illness, even if the blood pressure increases, there will be no special manifestations . The state of blood pressure has continued to damage important organs such as the heart, brain and kidney .

There are also some hypertensive patients who are always worried that "the drug is three-point poison", and they are afraid that long-term use of antihypertensive drugs will cause side effects.

But in fact, the side effects of antihypertensive drugs are generally mild and the incidence is very low, and most of the side effects are reversible, and even some side effects can be offset by a reasonable combination of drugs .

Therefore, as long as you take antihypertensive drugs under the guidance of a doctor, you don’t need to worry too much about side effects. Remember, the harm caused by random withdrawal will be even greater!

For high blood pressure, in addition to insisting on medication, we should adhere to a healthy lifestyle, not smoking or drinking, controlling salt intake, monitoring blood pressure changes, etc. These are the keys to stabilizing blood pressure.

3. Keep your eyes open for this kind of high blood pressure scam

Today, there are tens of thousands of patients with high blood pressure, and this has brought new "business opportunities". Have you ever fallen into the scam of high blood pressure?

Claiming that only a few courses of treatment can cure high blood pressure? Don't be naive! At present, there is still no clinical cure for hypertension , and there is no problem of course of treatment in the treatment of hypertension.

There are also merchants who use antihypertensive drugs as ancestral secret recipes or inject high technology. Everyone should be clear that the latest clinical research on hypertension is first known by professional doctors rather than merchants. Moreover, Chinese people have only known high blood pressure for decades. .

In addition, it is said that after taking certain antihypertensive drugs, the symptoms of high blood pressure are completely eliminated? Compared with the complete elimination of symptoms, it is only a psychological effect, and the effect of antihypertensive drugs is to stabilize blood pressure rather than change symptoms.

There are also examples of imported health care products that can lower blood pressure, etc. Keep your eyes open. This is often a side ball for companies to confuse drugs with supplements.

Therefore, hypertensive patients must go to a regular hospital to find a professional doctor to consult about blood pressure, and it is correct to take antihypertensive drugs reasonably under their guidance.

Fourth, eat these 3 kinds of antihypertensive drugs, pay more attention

At present, there are still many types of antihypertensive drugs, but most of these types have been eliminated.

• Nifedipine Tablets

Nifedipine reduces blood pressure quickly and has a good effect, but the maintenance time is short , and it needs to be taken three times a day, and after taking it, there may be headaches, flushing, palpitation and other discomforts. More serious side effects include hypotension, coronary ischemia, etc.

With the upgrading of drugs, nifedipine tablets are gradually eliminated.The 2020 edition of the "National Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Primary Hypertension" pointed out that sublingual nifedipine is not recommended for rapid blood pressure reduction.

• Compound Reserpine Triamteridine Tablets

Compound Reserpine Triamteridine Tablets, also known as "Blood-lowering No. 0", is a combination of four older antihypertensive drugs, including hydrochlorothiazide, triamterene, hydralazine sulfate, and reserpine. .

These four drugs are short-acting antihypertensives, and the short-term antihypertensive effect is good, but the concentration will decrease after the action time exceeds 4-6 hours, which will easily cause the blood pressure of patients to rise and fall, but will damage the blood vessel wall.

Since buck 0 is cheap and effective, it played a big role in the older generation. However, nowadays, there are many good antihypertensive drugs to choose from , and the antihypertensive type 0, which cannot be used for long-term and stable blood pressure reduction, and has many contraindications, is no longer recommended.

• propranolol

As a first-generation beta-blocker, propranolol can reduce blood pressure, but it can also slow down the heart rate, cause bronchospasm, and cause asthma attacks. It may also interfere with glucose metabolism and increase blood sugar. A class of drugs that are not strong in blood pressure but have many side effects are now basically eliminated.

Hypertension is a high-incidence chronic disease, and many young people become a member of the hypertensive group at a young age. It is recommended to use a healthy and regular lifestyle as the basis, use rational medication, and stabilize blood pressure.

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