Smoking is very serious to blood vessels and may be fatal to hypertension patients.
Whether taking medicine or not, hypertension patients must give up smoking! Otherwise, the risk of myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage will be much higher than that of other hypertension patients.
Many people will think that doctors have deliberately said the problem is very serious, but the harm of smoking is really not to frighten people.
Smoking Increases Risk of Myocardial Infarction
Smoking will reduce the blood’s ability to transport oxygen. Many smokers are actually in a [anoxic] state for a long time. In this case, your blood vessels and heart will undergo these changes:
- Destroy the blood vessel wall, aggravate atherosclerotic plaque, weaken the elasticity of blood vessels, and cause greater damage to arterioles; Affect blood lipid, reduce good cholesterol, increase bad cholesterol, increase hypertension, accelerate heart rate, and make the burden on the heart heavier.
These changes have made great contributions to the occurrence of myocardial infarction.
The direct cause of myocardial infarction is: atherosclerotic plaque rupture, causing thrombosis, leading to myocardial infarction.
Smoking, one can directly aggravate atherosclerosis; Second, it can lead to dyslipidemia and enlarge atherosclerotic plaques. Third, it can affect the stability of blood vessel wall and make plaque easier to rupture.
Under the combined effect of these aspects, smokers have a higher risk of myocardial infarction than others.
Smoking can also have an effect on cerebral vessels similar to that of heart vessels. The cerebral vessels of hypertension patients bear greater pressure than others. If smoking damages blood vessels, the probability of complications such as cerebral hemorrhage is much higher than that of non-smokers.
Second-hand smoke has the same harm
I hope you can forward the following passage to your family:
Second-hand smoke can have the same effect on human blood vessels and heart health as first-hand smoke.
If there are hypertension patients at home, please give up smoking for the health of yourself and your family!
Maybe you have plans to quit smoking, but you are worried that you will smoke too long.
I want to tell you that no matter how old or how old people are, as long as they quit smoking, they can benefit from it.
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