5/04/2008

Atherosclerosis is how it formed

Atherosclerosis is how it formed
As cholesterol in the artery intima on precipitation, causing artery intima rugged surface like atherosclerosis, called atherosclerosis. The causes of internal factors (including genetic factors, etc.) and external factors (including environmental factors, etc.).
From the perspective of genetic factors, some of the family is the family of coronary heart disease, diabetes some family, some of the family of tumors, some are schizophrenic family, family history of the people, every generation may be genetic, may also be genetic parents. Age and sex can not be ignored two factors. According to the Beijing area over the 35-year-old 700,000 people survey, the incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke every 10-year-old rate three times higher, with age and the growth of atherosclerosis also speed up the pace. In terms of gender, pre-menopausal women in the protection of the ovarian hormone, rarely atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease in a few myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction before the age of 50 of the male to female ratio is 9:1, but after the age of 50, women Ovarian function wilt places, myocardial infarction patients also will be growth, 60-year-old men and women at a ratio of 3:1 to 70-year-old, the proportion of men and women have been close to 1:1; to 80-year-old, women slightly more than men. This set of figures show that women after menopause, with particular attention to blood pressure, heart and other aspects.
Although genetic factors, age and gender, the reasons for the change is not possible, but not the main (only 30 per cent), the external environment is the most important factor, accounting for about 70 percent.
Seven kinds of external factors, including: high blood pressure, high blood lipids, smoking, obesity, exercise too little, psychological tension and imbalance in diabetes. Three of them before the main external factors. Hypertension is a silent killer, it will artery atherosclerosis in 20 to 40 in advance, it must be early treatment. Hyperlipidemia and obesity are also very important risk factor. Obesity at the "Apple" and "Pear-type." Apple-obesity stomach, commonly known as "The General's belly," this figure of people, mainly accumulation of body fat in the visceral, heart and arteries, so even more dangerous, "Pear" obese buttocks, Tuicu, not stomachs Large, some small risk.

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