Stay away from stroke and high blood pressure.

Blood vessels, like water pipes, age and harden.

We often compare blood vessels to water pipes. As time goes on, blood vessels will scale, age, harden and become brittle. And our blood vessels will also "scale" and "age", but not scale, but "atherosclerotic plaque".

Current research shows that people with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, smoking and alcoholism are more likely to suffer from "atherosclerosis", which is also commonly known as "arteriosclerosis".

After plaque formation, the blood vessel wall will become thicker and harder, and the blood vessel diameter will become smaller, leading to stenosis or even blockage.

Friends who care about health must know that the causes of myocardial infarction and stroke (cerebral infarction) are also caused by blood vessel blockage and organ ischemia. The blood vessels in the legs are blocked, and leg ulceration may occur.

Hospital examination can detect "arteriosclerosis"

A friend often asks:

I feel a little sick. Is it "arteriosclerosis"

My blood vessels feel a little stiff. It's arteriosclerosis, right Why don't you eat something?

Ordinary people are unlikely to find "arteriosclerosis" by feeling and touching blood vessels themselves. But "arteriosclerosis" can be found through examination:

Chest X-ray: Aortic tortuous widening, local calcification;

Color Doppler ultrasound of cervical blood vessels: the intima-media of carotid artery is obviously irregular thickening, with strong echo plaque and uneven echo;

Contrast medium filling defect and lumen stenosis appeared in abdominal aorta, external iliac artery and superficial femoral artery.

The "intimal thickening, calcification and plaque" mentioned in these examination reports is also called "arteriosclerosis".

There is "angiosclerosis", which is treated like this.

If the doctor has been diagnosed as "arteriosclerosis" through angiography, color Doppler ultrasound and chest X-ray, he should pay attention to adjusting his diet and need drugs and surgery if necessary.

1. Adjust diet and exercise moderately.

Reduce the intake of animal fat and saturated fatty acid vegetable oil, specifically, eat less fat, lard, bone marrow and cream. Eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C and high fiber.

Keep exercising, and make sure to exercise 4~6 times a week for more than 30 minutes each time. Walking fast, cycling, swimming and lifting dumbbells are all good ways to exercise.

2. Necessary drugs and surgery

In addition to adjusting diet and paying attention to exercise, some "arteriosclerosis" have to use drugs such as lowering blood fat and preventing thrombosis according to the doctor's advice. These drugs can stabilize "atherosclerotic plaque" on blood vessels, and prevent plaque from falling off, forming thrombus and blocking blood vessels as much as possible.

For some patients with severe "arteriosclerosis" or even blood vessel blockage, minimally invasive surgery may be performed to open narrow blood vessels and ensure blood flow.

Listen to the doctor and have a regular physical examination.

Adjusting diet, proper exercise and medication can stabilize plaque and avoid plaque shedding and blood vessel blockage. But these measures can't really soften blood vessels and completely avoid blood vessel blockage.

Therefore, if the doctor clearly suggests that there is "arteriosclerosis", he must follow the doctor's advice and have a regular physical examination according to his own situation to find the aggravation of the condition as soon as possible.

Angiogram. Jpg's blood sclerosis.

Foods that soften blood vessels are not reliable.

Some friends may have heard of some foods that "soften blood vessels", such as onions, fungus and garlic. Can they really "soften blood vessels"?

In recent years, studies have indeed found unsaturated fatty acids (mainly oleic acid) in olive oil; Allicin, sulfide, adenosine, etc. In garlic and onions; Lycopene in tomato has certain antithrombotic effect.

But this does not mean that eating these foods can soften blood vessels, let alone cure arteriosclerosis.

For friends who have been diagnosed as "arteriosclerosis", they must follow the doctor's advice and check regularly. Don't think that "what you eat can cure arteriosclerosis". The best way to treat "arteriosclerosis" is to adjust diet and life and supplement necessary drugs.

Stay away from arteriosclerosis, from now on

No matter how good the drug effect is, no matter how small the operation is, it is not as good as "preventing arteriosclerosis". Although "arteriosclerosis" cannot be completely avoided, the following points can delay the occurrence of "arteriosclerosis" to the greatest extent.

1. Actively control the "three highs"

Studies have shown that hyperlipidemia, hypertension and smoking will seriously increase the risk of illness.

Resolutely quit smoking

Both active and passive smoking will damage vascular endothelium, make blood hypercoagulable and increase the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein, thus increasing the risk of "arteriosclerosis".

3. Low-salt and low-fat diet

Ensure a low-salt and low-fat diet: eat less fatty acids and animal oils, such as animal oil and animal offal; Eat less salt and ensure that the salt does not exceed 6g every day. This is the bottle cap.

4. Don't take medicine indiscriminately.

All preventive and therapeutic drugs must be taken under the guidance of a doctor and monitored regularly. Drug abuse will do harm to your health.

5. Have a regular physical examination even if you are not sick.

Even friends who don't have "arteriosclerosis" or other diseases should have regular physical examinations to know their blood lipid and blood pressure levels.