心血管病多见于老人,因而许多老人需要依赖于心血管药物的治疗。然而,许多此类药物可以改变病人的心理状态,由此产生的心理性症状有时甚至丝毫不逊色于心血管病本身。 治疗心力衰竭的药物洋地黄可使老年病人产生抑郁、疲乏、迟钝等精神性症状。虽然对许多病人来说,并无药物过量的问题,但是由于药物导致的心理改变往往会使病人诉说头晕、恶心等症状,这些症状使得病人神软意懒,甚至会丧失对生活的乐趣。 Cardiovascular disease is more common in the elderly, so many elderly people need to rely on the treatment of cardiovascular drugs. However, many of these drugs can change the patient’s psychological state, resulting in psychological symptoms sometimes even inferior to the cardiovascular disease itself. Digitalis for the treatment of heart failure can cause depression, fatigue, sluggishness and other psychiatric symptoms in elderly patients. Although for many patients there is no problem of overdosage, psychological changes caused by drugs often cause patients to complain of dizziness, nausea and other symptoms that make the patient lazy and even lose the pleasure of living.