With the changes of living standards and environment, myocardial infarction, stroke and other diseases have gradually become major diseases threatening health.
The occurrence of myocardial infarction, stroke and other diseases is closely related to vascular health, and [angiosclerosis] is an important indicator to judge vascular health.
What is the [arteriosclerosis] going on? How to deal with and prevent it? Today we invite professional vascular surgeons to talk about it.
Blood vessels, like water pipes, will [age] and harden.
We often compare blood vessels to water pipes. Water pipes will scale, age, harden and become brittle over time. And our blood vessels will also [scale] [age], but what grows in blood vessels is not scale, but [atherosclerotic plaque].
At present, research believes that people with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, smoking and alcoholism are more likely to suffer from [atherosclerosis], which is often referred to as [atherosclerosis].
When plaque is formed, the blood vessel wall will become thicker and harder, and the diameter of the vessel will become smaller, resulting in stenosis or even blockage.
Friends who pay attention to health must know that myocardial infarction and stroke (cerebral infarction) are also caused by blocked blood vessels and organ ischemia. However, the blood vessels in the legs are blocked and may fester in the legs.
Only by doing an examination can we find angiosclerosis.
Friends often ask:
What’s wrong with me, is it arteriosclerosis? This blood vessel of mine feels a little hardened. It is arteriosclerosis, if it weren’t for something to eat?
In fact, ordinary people are unlikely to find angiosclerosis through symptoms and touching blood vessels, but these tests can find:
- Chest radiograph: aorta tortuous, widened, accompanied by local calcification; Color Doppler ultrasound of neck vessels: carotid artery intima-media is irregular and obviously thickened, with hyperechoic plaques and heterogeneous echoes. Vascular contrast-enhanced CT angiography: Contrast agent filling defect and lumen stenosis were found in abdominal aorta, external iliac artery and superficial femoral artery.
The [intimal thickening, calcification, plaque] mentioned in these examination reports is also commonly referred to as [angiosclerosis].
The legendary food [softening blood vessels] is useless.
Some friends may have heard of some foods that [soften blood vessels], such as vinegar soaked peanuts, onions, agaric, garlic, etc. Can they really [soften blood vessels]?
In recent years, some studies have indeed found that unsaturated fatty acids (mainly oleic acid) in olive oil, garlic, allicin, sulfide, adenosine in onion, lycopene in tomato, etc. have certain antithrombotic effects.
However, the usefulness of research is only useful in the laboratory, in experimental animals or cells, which does not mean that eating directly can [soften blood vessels].
Of course, this is not to say that vinegar, peanuts, onions, agaric, garlic and other foods are not good, but there is really no evidence to strongly support eating or drinking certain things to reduce blood lipid and soften blood vessels.
In a word, you can eat some delicious food properly, but it is not good for blood vessels. After all, this kind of groundless words, we can’t talk nonsense without conscience.
These three methods are useful
If doctors have confirmed [angiosclerosis] through angiography, vascular color Doppler ultrasound, chest radiograph and other examinations, they should pay attention to adjusting diet and need drugs and surgical treatment when 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 cellulose.
Insist on exercise and ensure that you exercise 4 ~ 6 times a week for more than 30 minutes each time. Fast walking, cycling, swimming, push-ups and dumbbell lifting are all good forms of exercise.
2. Necessary medication, surgery
In addition to adjusting diet and paying attention to exercise, some [angiosclerosis] have to use drugs such as reducing blood lipid and preventing thrombosis according to 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.
However, for some patients with serious [angiosclerosis] or even vascular blockage, minimally invasive surgery may be required to open the narrow blood vessels to ensure blood flow.
3. Listen to the doctor and have regular physical examination.
Adjusting diet, moderate exercise and drug therapy can stabilize plaque and prevent plaque from falling off and blood vessels from being blocked. However, these measures cannot really soften blood vessels and completely avoid blood vessel blockage.
Therefore, if the doctor clearly has [angiosclerosis], he must listen to the doctor and have regular physical examination according to his own situation, so as not to know if the disease worsens.