{"id":1276,"date":"2014-06-13T07:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-help-4-stroke-plugin-upgrade.local\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2015-05-29T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:06:20","slug":"medication-why-is-it-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Medication \u2013 why is it important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medications prescribed by your doctor or consultant have many positive effects, such as:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>They may reduce the risk of a TIA or stroke in the future<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_brain.png\" alt=\"Brain\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3272\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thin your blood and reduce the risk of clots<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_blood_cells.png\" alt=\"blood cells\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3267\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lower blood pressure<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_bp_cuff.png\" alt=\"Blood pressure cuff and digital meter\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3327\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lower heart rate<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_ecg.png\" alt=\"Heart and ECG\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3321\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reduce the problems that can occur if you have an irregular heartbeat such as atrial fibrillation<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_AF_ecg.png\" alt=\"Heart with atrial fibrillation ECG\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3320\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lower cholesterol<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/disc_cake.png\" alt=\"No cream cakes\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3335\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"brainwave\">\n<h3>Key point<\/h3>\n<p>Remember you have been prescribed medication to reduce your risk of another stroke. It is important to understand your medications and how they help you.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medications prescribed by your doctor or consultant have many positive effects, such as: They may reduce the risk of a TIA or stroke in the future Thin your blood and reduce the risk of clots Lower blood pressure Lower heart rate Reduce the problems that can occur if you have an irregular heartbeat such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}