Carotid atherosclerosis is an atherosclerotic disease that can be treated by improving lifestyle and dietary habits, taking medications, and, for patients whose blood vessels are severely narrowed due to hardened plaques, by interventional procedures.
Atherosclerosis can occur in any part of the body’s blood vessels, and if it occurs in the carotid arteries, it is carotid atherosclerosis. Since atherosclerosis is associated with smoking, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension and other factors, so you should quit smoking, alcohol, low-fat diet, for diabetic patients should control the intake of sugar, for hypertensive patients should be low-salt diet.
Drugs can take fenofibrate, atorvastatin and other drugs to regulate blood lipids and stabilize plaque, and can also take aspirin, cilostazol and other drugs to prevent thrombosis, diabetic patients should use insulin, metformin and other drugs to control blood glucose, and hypertensive patients should take amlodipine, enalapril, candesartan and so on to control blood pressure.
If carotid atherosclerosis leads to severe narrowing of the carotid artery, it can be treated by implanting a stent through interventional surgery. If carotid atherosclerosis is found on examination, please follow the doctor’s advice for treatment.