It is a well-known fact that to maintain health, we need to lower blood lipids, and the use of “lipid-regulating drugs” is an important part of it. However, not every patient (or even some doctors) knows how to use the medication, and there are various ways of understanding and using the medication, which may affect the efficacy of the treatment. According to the following five cases that need to take lipid-lowering drugs: 1, if it is an acute attack of cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular disease (regardless of size and severity), you do not need to wait for the results of the lipid examination, you should immediately take lipid-regulating drugs; and to reduce the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) within a week by 50%, or to 1.8 mmol/L to be the most effective, to achieve this purpose, the best The best way to achieve this goal is to choose a strong lipid-lowering drug plus a new type of drug that inhibits the absorption of cholesterol in the gastrointestinal tract – ezetimibe, the combination of the two treatments, on the one hand, inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the body, on the other hand, prevent the intestinal absorption of cholesterol in food and bile, so that the cholesterol in the blood evenly and quickly drop to the ideal index, simply Taking traditional lipid-regulating drugs alone requires large doses and increases the compensatory absorption of cholesterol in the gastrointestinal tract, which is not conducive to achieving the target in the short term and increases side effects. 2.If it is found that the blood lipid is higher than normal in the physical examination, lipid regulating drugs should be taken for sure, but in order to have less side effects, it is better to choose the above two types of drugs together, which can reduce the dosage of “lipid-lowering drugs”. Half a month to review the effect, adhere to the medication for about six months. 3.If your blood lipids are in the normal range, but you smoke, stay up late, gain weight, snore, have high blood pressure and high blood sugar, and have patients with vascular disease at home, you also have to take medicine. In this case, you can use drugs that inhibit cholesterol absorption alone. 4.If you should take lipid-lowering drugs, but have side effects (muscle pain, abnormal liver and kidney function), or are worried about side effects, a good way is to take this intestinal cholesterol absorption inhibitor – ezetimibe, which is metabolized by the gastrointestinal tract and has almost no side effects on the body. 5, but it is worth emphasizing the point that: taking any medicine should not delay physical exercise and adjust the structure of the diet.