The efficacy of atorvastatin mainly includes the treatment of hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and antiplatelet effect, and its side effects mainly include causing elevation of liver enzymes and muscle enzymes.
1.Efficacy.
(1) treating hyperlipidemia, atorvastatin can lower blood lipids, it can lower cholesterol, LDL, triglycerides, so most hyperlipidemic patients need to take it for a long time.
(2) Treatment of cardiovascular diseases, atorvastatin has the effect of stabilizing arterial plaques, especially atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, it can stabilize plaques, thus reducing the risk of plaque rupture, bleeding and thrombosis,.
(3) Antiplatelet, atorvastatin has an auxiliary effect on antiplatelet, which can reduce the risk of thrombosis to a certain extent.
2.Side effects.
(1) It may cause elevation of liver enzymes, mainly in the form of elevation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and glutamic alanine transaminase. Long-term use will bring some burden to the liver, if the liver enzymes more than three times the normal value, you have to stop using atorvastatin calcium tablets, switch to other types of lipid-lowering drugs, so we recommend that patients take the drug should be checked regularly after the liver function.
(2) It may cause elevated muscle enzymes, which will cause muscle pain, fatigue and other symptoms, so patients should check the muscle enzymes regularly.
The drug is contraindicated in people with active liver disease; known hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients in the product; and pregnant women. While taking atorvastatin, patients are advised to monitor liver function and creatine kinase regularly to understand the safety of drug therapy, and also need to monitor lipid levels and adjust lipid-lowering regimens according to the lipid profile.
The drug should be used in strict compliance with medical advice.