Don’t let coronary heart disease become a body bomb

“In recent years, the string of coronary heart disease in the minds of Chinese people has indeed been tightened, but the bad living habits that have been formed for a long time still make them closer to the disease. Therefore, it is still urgent to prevent and treat coronary heart disease.” At the second “cardiovascular event intervention academic Roundtable” jointly held by life times and Guizhou Xinbang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Professor Zhou Yujie, director of the 12th cardiovascular ward of Beijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, appealed.

more and more patients with coronary heart disease

In recent years, the incidence rate of coronary heart disease (CHD) has increased year by year, making it a “familiar” disease for Chinese people. According to statistics, the incidence rate of coronary heart disease in men and women in China has increased by 26.1% and 19% respectively. It is estimated that by 2020, the percentage of coronary heart disease deaths in the global death toll will increase by 50%, reaching 25 million people / year. “In our hospital, we can clearly feel this change.” Zhou Yujie said that doctors who perform heart intervention operations often leave work at 90 o’clock in the evening. The night doctors and emergency doctors will continue to work at midnight, which is evident from the number of coronary heart disease patients.

“Traffic jams will paralyze road transport, as well as the human body. Once the blood vessels of the body are narrow or blocked, serious consequences such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, heart failure, and even sudden death will follow. All these are the clinical manifestations of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary heart disease for short).”

Zhou Yujie explained that the coronary artery supplies the blood of the heart itself. If severe atherosclerosis or spasm occurs, the coronary artery will be narrowed or blocked, resulting in myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or infarction, leading to serious heart failure. In serious cases, large-scale myocardial necrosis will occur, endangering life.

coronary heart disease is a lifestyle disease.

But in fact, coronary heart disease is not achieved overnight, and the disaster it brings is not happening in a short time. There is a long accumulation process before these life-threatening events occur. Therefore, all this is preventable and controllable.

“To put it bluntly, coronary heart disease is a lifestyle disease.” Zhou Yujie said that eating more and more, moving less and less, mental pressure is increasing, smoking and drinking have become the norm of life, so that blood pressure is high, blood lipids and blood sugar are abnormal, especially the three main blood vessels that supply blood to the heart, the anterior descending branch, the circumflex branch and the right coronary artery, will be injured, and the tubes that supply energy will be blocked. How can the heart not have problems?

Therefore, in addition to genetic and other uncontrollable elements, other causes of coronary heart disease can be prevented, and this is the fundamental way to stay away from coronary heart disease. Quit smoking, lose weight, take more physical activities and exercise, balance diet, eat less high-fat and high calorie food, reduce blood pressure and control blood lipids. “Moreover, these preventive measures must start with children. On the one hand, there are more and more small fat people; on the other hand, ’30-year-old age, 60-year-old heart’ is not an individual case. In the long run, these two groups will become a strong reserve force for coronary heart disease.”

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