Myocardial ischemia, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, heart stents, and heart bypass all belong to coronary artery disease. Coronary heart disease, with its high incidence, disability and death rate, has become the number one killer of the health of the elderly in today’s society. However, there are still many people who do not understand coronary heart disease, and many people even wonder why they need to take long-term medication to control it. Coronary heart disease cannot be cured at present, and can only be controlled by medication. Therefore, people with coronary heart disease almost always need to take medication for life, and there are many medications for coronary heart disease, and individualization is important. But there are two classes of drugs that almost all patients with coronary heart disease need to take for a long time. Today we will talk about these two classes of drugs. 1, first we review what is coronary heart disease Coronary heart disease is the general term for coronary artery supply artery stenosis, atherosclerotic heart disease, the degree of stenosis is more than 50%, affecting the blood supply and oxygen supply to the heart, long-term uncontrolled, will affect heart function, or cause acute myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular events. The main cause of coronary heart disease, is the atherosclerosis of blood vessels, and the cause of atherosclerosis, and the body of blood lipids, cholesterol and other high causes. One of the more serious coronary heart disease myocardial infarction is due to plaque rupture platelet aggregation to form a thrombus. 2, for the cause of treatment of the two types of essential drugs The reason why patients with coronary heart disease to take long-term drug control symptoms, mainly taking drugs to control the body triglycerides, cholesterol levels, and anti-platelet therapy. Because only by controlling the cause of the disease can the condition be controlled, those patients with coronary heart disease who take medications for a long time to control these indicators within the normal range generally rarely have worsening symptoms or critical conditions. (1) The first category: cholesterol-lowering drugs These drugs are used to lower cholesterol. Increased cholesterol content can easily cause coronary artery stenosis, and increased stenosis can further cause vessel occlusion, and then thrombosis can lead to heart attack. Therefore, these drugs are mainly used to treat the root cause of coronary heart disease. The representative drugs of this kind are atorvastatin, resulvastatin, ezetimibe, elocizumab, etc. Warmly remind everyone: patients with coronary heart disease should take such drugs even if their cholesterol is not high. (2) The second category: anti-platelet aggregation drugs People who are at potential risk of cardiovascular disease will have a “high coagulation” of platelets in their blood compared to healthy normal people. This is especially true for patients with coronary heart disease. Acute infarction of coronary heart disease is caused by the formation of thrombus in the coronary arteries blocking the coronary vessels. In order to avoid abnormal aggregation of platelets in the blood vessels to form thrombus, such people need to take anti-platelet drugs to inhibit the coagulation function of platelets. The main antiplatelet drugs commonly used are aspirin, tigretol and clopidogrel. Medication is the most basic treatment for patients with coronary artery disease and needs to be taken for a long time regardless of whether the patient has a stent or not. Drug therapy can effectively reduce the frequency and intensity of angina attacks, increase the duration of continuous exercise, and improve the overall quality of life of patients. For the majority of patients with coronary heart disease, the benefits of long-term medication clearly outweigh the risks, and we do not recommend stopping or changing medication easily if there are no clear contraindications. However, the specific choice of medication should be made under the guidance of a physician. Please consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have any problems with your medication.