Does cerebral infarction require long-term medication?

Cerebral infarction must take medicine for a long time, because the recurrence rate of cerebral infarction is 17.7%, the proportion is very large, so it must be active secondary prevention, prevention of recurrence, must take medicine for a long time. First, to control the patient's blood sugar, such as hypoglycemic drugs, diabetes diet, regular review of blood sugar, etc., to see if the patient has hypertension, if there is hypertension to low fat, low salt diet, choose the appropriate antihypertensive drugs to treat. The most important prevention of cerebral infarction, but also with drugs that inhibit platelet aggregation, such as aspirin, clopidogrel and other drugs, can inhibit platelet aggregation, can prevent re-infarction. There is also a very important drug called statins is also very good, but also continue to use, mainly atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and so on. This drug can stabilize plaque and reduce plaque while lowering fat. It is also a very important drug for preventing cerebral infarction.