Fatty meals and sticky platelets : A new trigger for ACS ?

Every time , patients ask me  what diet he or she  should follow , Iam sort of  amused , as my understanding of diet and cardio vascular disease is at best primitive.I used  go with a standard single phrase  advice “Anything in moderate should be okay  “ What about going for a saturday night party doctor? One of  my shrewd looking  patient who was recently double stented with DES , asked. Human body is a biological marvel.While medical professional divide it  into various systems  for our convenience. God doesn’t  think that way .He has no systems in mind when the body was designed . There is no wonder , the alimentary system and hematological system has to interact on a daily basis  with the help of circulatory system  to keep the  body alive. Platelets are unique blood cells that exist primarily to plug physiological bleeding if any  or for self-healing at sites of tissue injury.   With human vascular system increasingly invaded by various metals and wires , platelet are a confused lot since their original biological functions are altered. They simply don’t know whether  fight these foreign body , aggregate over it , flush or simply pass over these .Adding to this  the powerful anti-platelet drugs targeting critical functional pathways .No wonder every other cardiovascular  patient  consumes at least one anti-platelet drug. It seems diet  can have direct influence of platelet function With human beings desire to add style t...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: acute coronary syndrome atherosclerosis platelet function platelet adhesion and aggrgation and fatty meal briyani platelet stickyness and dietery fat platlet anf fat ldl and triglycerides tgl mediated platlet aggregation Source Type: blogs