Friday, December 22, 2023

What is the difference between allopurinol, benzbromarone and febuxostat?💫💫💫

Hyperuricemia is a very common metabolic disease today. It not only causes kidney stones, chronic kidney disease and gout in patients, but may also cause diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Allopurinol, benzbromarone and febuxostat are the most commonly used urate-lowering drugs in clinical practice. What is the difference between the three of them?How...

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

What is methotrexate?😵😵😵

Methotrexate is a drug that can be used to treat both cancer and non-cancer. It prevents cell division and the production of new cells. It can be used to prevent rejection in patients following bone marrow or stem cell transplants. It is also used to treat psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.What are the indications and doses of methotrexate?Methotrexate is a metabolic inhibitor...

Friday, October 13, 2023

What are the differences in the usage of different lipid-lowering drugs?🔠🔠🔠

Among people who die from diseases in the world, deaths caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease rank at the forefront. One of the important pathogenic risk factors in the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is dyslipidemia. Therefore, lipid-lowering drugs play an important role in preventing and controlling atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.What...

Sunday, September 24, 2023

What are the differences between calcium channel blockers?📋📋📋

Calcium channel blockers are one of the commonly used antihypertensive drugs in clinical practice. The effect of their antihypertensive drugs is relatively stable, so they are currently a type of antihypertensive drug widely used among patients with hypertension. Commonly used calcium channel blockers include amlodipine, felodipine, nifedipine, nifedipine sustained-release...

Sunday, September 10, 2023

What is the difference between apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban and rivaroxaban?❓❓❓

For a long period of time in the past, warfarin was the only oral anticoagulant drug until the emergence of novel oral anticoagulant drugs. Although they are called "novel" oral anticoagulants, they are only relative to warfarin. New oral anticoagulants include factor Xa inhibitors (apixaban, edoxaban, and rivaroxaban) and direct thrombin factor IIa inhibitors (dabigatran)....

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

What antihypertensive drugs should be used in patients with diastolic hypertension?💓💓💓

Isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH) refers to patients with systolic blood pressure < 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg. Isolated diastolic hypertension is common in people younger than 65 and is often accompanied by a rapid heart rate.What is arterial compliance? What is Peripheral Resistance?Arterial compliance is arterial elasticity. When the heart contracts,...

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

What are the normal values of blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids and uric acid for people of different ages?👀👀👀

Blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids and uric acid are the four basic indicators for evaluating the health of the human body. However, the values of these indicators are not fixed and it will change with age. Therefore, some people will mistakenly think that they are unhealthy when they find that the value of the index is different from the standard value after the physical...

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An introduction to Nivolumab (Opdivo®) and its common usage and dosage.(Part 1)👀👀👀

Nivolumab (Opdivo®) is a monoclonal antibody. It binds to the PD-1 receptor, thereby blocking the interaction of the PD-1 receptor with PD-...