What is arteriosclerosis

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Colleagues appear dizziness and chest tightness for a long time, has been bad to the hospital for examination, found that there is arteriosclerosis disease, the following describes what is arteriosclerosis?

What is arteriosclerosis

First of all, arteriosclerosis is a kind of non-inflammatory lesions of the artery, which can make the arterial wall thickening, hardening, loss of elasticity, lumen stenosis. Arteriosclerosis is a kind of vascular disease with the growth of age, which usually occurs in adolescence, and becomes more and more serious in the middle and old age. In recent years, the disease has gradually increased in our country and become one of the main causes of death in the elderly.

Secondly, the most important causes of arteriosclerosis are hypertension, hyperlipidemia and smoking. Other factors such as obesity, diabetes, lack of exercise, stress, advanced age, family history, and irritability can cause atherosclerosis. And also has an important link with the daily eating habits, especially patients usually eat a lot of greasy food or high cholesterol food is also easy to cause disease.

Finally, the manifestation of arteriosclerosis mainly depends on the degree of ischemia of vascular lesions and affected organs. For early patients with arteriosclerosis, most of them have no clinical symptoms and are in a latent state. For patients with middle-term arteriosclerosis, most patients have more or less palpitations, chest pain, chest tightness, headache, dizziness, numbness, soreness, lameness, vision loss, memory loss, insomnia and other clinical symptoms. Different patients will have different symptoms.

matters needing attention

Get arteriosclerosis disease to the regular hospital in time for examination and treatment, in the usual diet should also pay attention to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, can't eat too greasy.