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: dr s venkatesan 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
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