Prevent cardiovascular disease By first keeping cholesterol in check.

Original title: Prevention of cardiovascular disease First control cholesterol
days ago, the Chinese Stroke Society, the Chinese Cardiovascular Health Alliance launched the May "Cholesterol Month" publicity campaign. Experts pointed out that cholesterol is not only affecting blood lipids, "bad" cholesterol may also be the cause of heart attack, cerebral infarction, and damage the health of diabetics.
Naughty" cholesterol is the culprit
said Professor Ho Yong, director of the Center for Cardiology and Cardiology at Peking University's First Hospital. According to statistics, 77% of the increase in the death rate from Chinese coronary heart disease is due to elevated cholesterol.
among many risk factors, abnormal cholesterol indicators are independent and important risk factors for coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and ischemic stroke. Cholesterol is mainly divided into HDL-c and LDL-c. The former has a protective effect on the cardiovascular system, which is "good" cholesterol, while the latter adheres to the walls of blood vessels, causing arteriosclerosis, known as "bad" cholesterol.
, vice president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, said that "bad" cholesterol is the culprit of heart and cerebral infarction. When the "bad" cholesterol in the blood increases, it thickens the blood, forming small plaques on the walls of blood vessels, gradually clogging the blood vessels, slowing the blood flow, causing coronary heart disease and stroke of moderate cardiovascular disease. More dangerously, unstable plaques that rupture or fall off can clog blood vessels for a short period of time, leading to acute myocardial infarction or stroke, which can be life-threatening.
fact that "bad" cholesterol has a greater impact on the health of diabetics. Diabetics are more prone to vascular lesions due to metabolic abnormalities. Among them, large vascular lesions are caused by atherosclerosis, so cholesterol management in diabetics is even more important than blood sugar management.
Save the cerebral infarction patients remember two "120"
heart attacks, generally refers to acute myocardial infarction, is the coronary artery acute, persistent isteremia caused by myocardial necrosis, but also the most serious and deadly type of coronary heart disease. China adds 2 million new cases of heart attack each year, and the mortality rate is more than 30%. This is because the heart attack is a time-dependent disease, after 4 hours to 6 hours to rescue the golden period, and then superb medical skills are helpless.
are the signs of a heart attack? Ho Yong introduced, "If the patient has sudden pre-heart pain, lasts more than 20 minutes can not be alleviated, and accompanied by sweaty, pale, vomiting, nausea, near-death and other symptoms, we should consider is a heart attack!" Call 120 immediately. "
ischemic stroke, that is, the common people say stroke, with high recurrence rate, high mortality and high disability rate of the "three high" characteristics. Wang Congjun prompted to find the cerebral infarction to remember two 120. The first 120 refers to the recognition of cerebral infarction, that is, look at 1 face, look at 2 arms, 0 (hearing) listening to language. Because more than 90% of patients with cerebral infarction will have skewed mouths and asymmetrical faces; The second 120 is to call 120 emergency calls as soon as possible after a cerebral infarction attack. Once missed the best rescue time, brain tissue necrosis due to isoemia is "irreversible", will cause neurological dysfunction, such as limb paralysis, sensory disorders, blindness, adversity, etc., serious will cause death.
"unhealthy population" cholesterol levels should be lower
healthy people should have different cholesterol control targets compared to people with high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart disease and heart attack. Ho Yong explained that blood lipid tests show only "bad" cholesterol targets for healthy people, while "unhealthy people" should have lower targets, depending on the doctor.
Patients with coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, and those who have just had a heart attack or diabetes combined coronary heart disease, because atherosclerosis plaques are already widespread in their bodies, the arrows on the test sheet only indicate that cholesterol levels are controlled for a short period of time and do not mean that the risk is gone. If not controlled, plaques can also appear, harming cardiovascular vessels, as "bad" cholesterol continues to synthesize and accumulate.
Wang stressed that "cholesterol control needs to be adhered to for a long time." On the basis of lifestyle intervention, the patient should insist on taking statins and fat-lowering drugs. "
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How to effectively manage cholesterol
Professor Guo Lixin, director of the endocrinology department at Beijing Hospital, suggested that the public should conduct regular blood lipid tests to ensure early detection and treatment of the disease.
patients with isoemia cardiovascular disease and other high-risk groups, blood lipids should be measured once every 3 to 6 months.
men over 40 and post-menopedal women should be tested for lipids annually.
20 years of age or older, blood lipids are measured at least once every 5 years. (Liu Chunping)