What is coronary heart disease: chronic disease

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Coronary heart disease has become a disease that makes people turn pale. Naturally, there will be all kinds of views and all kinds of "treatment methods". Today, Xiaobian has made great efforts to study it. Now let's discuss with you what coronary heart disease is and how we should treat it.

What is coronary heart disease: chronic disease

First: coronary heart disease is a common chronic disease in life. The full name of coronary heart disease is coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. It is a heart disease caused by coronary artery atherosclerotic lesions causing vascular stenosis or occlusion, myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis. The scope of coronary heart disease is very wide, including inflammation, embolism and other causes of lumen stenosis or occlusion. According to who, coronary heart disease can be divided into five types: silent myocardial ischemia (occult coronary heart disease), angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart failure (ischemic heart disease) and sudden death. Clinically, it is often divided into stable coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome.

Second, the risk factors of coronary heart disease include changeable risk factors and unchangeable risk factors. Understanding and intervening the risk factors is helpful to the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease.

Third, the risk factors that can be changed include: hypertension, dyslipidemia (high total cholesterol or low density lipoprotein cholesterol, high triglyceride, low high density lipoprotein cholesterol), overweight / obesity, high blood sugar / diabetes, and unhealthy lifestyle including smoking, unreasonable diet (high fat, high cholesterol, high calorie, etc.), lack of physical activity, excessive drinking, etc And social psychological factors. The unchangeable risk factors were gender, age and family history. In addition, it is related to infection, such as cytomegalovirus, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, etc.

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The attack of coronary heart disease is often associated with seasonal changes, emotional excitement, increased physical activity, satiety, heavy smoking and drinking.