What are the symptoms of carotid plaque?

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In fact, carotid plaque is often affected by many factors. Most patients are over 60 years old. Many patients have a long history of hypertension, smoking or diabetes. When these patients find that their body has the following performance, they must pay enough attention to it, Only in this way can we reduce the damage to patients.

What are the symptoms of carotid plaque?

Patients in peacetime only occasionally feel dizziness and headache, sometimes in the blood pressure rise will appear fainting, but with the blood pressure drop, these symptoms will slowly disappear.

That is, patients will have transient ischemic attack. At this time, many patients will have different degrees of movement disorders. Sometimes, unilateral limbs will suddenly lose consciousness, or there will be temporary aphasia, monocular blindness and other manifestations. Generally, these symptoms will only last for a very short time, and usually can recover within a day, And in the disease attack after the completion of physical examination, generally through the image is not to see the location of the lesion.

With the aggravation of the disease, in addition to the performance of dyskinesia or aphasia, limb loss of consciousness, there may be coma. At this time, physical examination will find some signs of nervous system lesions, and imaging examination can clearly show that local lesions will appear.

matters needing attention

Limiting the intake of food cholesterol: reducing low density lipoprotein cholesterol and total cholesterol is the key to the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. Although not all cholesterol in the body comes from food, it is necessary to limit the intake of cholesterol to reduce hypercholesterolemia.