Atherosclerosis was not built in a day, and it was gradually produced. Generally, it takes about 15 years from arteriosclerosis to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Many chronic diseases have a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. If we can pay enough attention to it at the stage of quantitative change, we can find, prevent and treat it early. When it comes to qualitative change, the disease is often serious.
The blood vessels on the body surface can be felt and seen, but what I want to know most is when they will harden. The blood vessels in the whole body are equivalent to the transportation network in the body. If any part of the body loses communication and contact with blood vessels, tissues and organs will lose supply and die. Preventing and maintaining blood vessels is like maintaining roads. Therefore, maintaining the health of blood vessels is one of the most basic conditions for maintaining life.
If we can know whether our arteries are hardened at an early stage, we can take preventive measures as early as possible and truly achieve the effect of preventive health care. Usually, the correct health care method should be targeted and well-documented prevention and control measures. Atherosclerosis can usually be detected at an early stage, and you can get the results you want through some simple and practical methods. Why not?
If you want to know whether your artery is hardened, you only need to do some simple operations at home, and you can detect it yourself and preliminarily judge whether your artery is hardened. At present, most people have their own electronic sphygmomanometer at home. As shown in the schematic diagram above, a common self-test method is to take the supine position and measure the ankle systolic pressure (high pressure) and the upper arm systolic pressure (high pressure) on the same side respectively, and the ratio of the two is called ABI index. In the following diagram, the degree of arteriosclerosis can be judged according to the ratio.
In addition, there is a simple judgment method. First go to the hospital for a blood lipid check, and use the following formula to calculate your own arteriosclerosis index (AI). The normal value of AI is less than 4. When Al is equal to or greater than 4, it means that arteriosclerosis has occurred. The larger the value, the more severe the arteriosclerosis, and the higher the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, the index only reflects arteriosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, and there are many factors affecting arteriosclerosis, which are for reference only.
Although both arteries and veins will harden, the hardening of arteries will be more obvious. Because the artery is the delivery pipeline in the body, it not only bears the pressure of the heart blood, but also maintains the elastic tension of the blood vessel itself. In addition, various excess nutrients and many harmful substances in the blood affect blood vessels. Such as hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia, as well as harmful substances and food pollution in the air, as well as tobacco and alcohol and some drugs for treating diseases. Vena is a reflux system, and various effects will be much less.
Once a person is over 50 years old, it is generally not conducive to longevity if the age of blood vessels is not lower than the actual age. At present, the average life expectancy is about 80 years old. During the 30 years from 50 to 80, we should actively pay attention to protection. If we want to continue to live a healthy life, we must work hard from the age of 50 to reduce the rate of vascular aging by half. Therefore, the health of blood vessels at the age of 50 is a watershed of physical health and a basic guarantee for longevity.
The rapid and abnormal growth of vascular age not only aggravates arteriosclerosis, but also accelerates human aging, and accelerated arteriosclerosis will shorten life span. Therefore, we should persist in eliminating various risk factors of arteriosclerosis and develop good healthy living habits. Even young people in their twenties and thirties, if they have "three highs" and bad living habits, will also have the risk of arteriosclerosis, and the age of blood vessels will increase abnormally, so it is necessary to control and prevent them in time and early.
Although blood vessels are traffic paths in the body, they are different from roads and railways in reality. Once damaged, it is impossible to completely repair it. The best way is to start from a young age, and careful maintenance is to extend its service life as much as possible. Otherwise, people are still young, but blood vessels are no longer perfect, and blood vessels that age ahead of time cannot guarantee normal life activities. Therefore, if you want to prolong life, please start with protecting blood vessels.
Note: The pictures in this article are quoted from the Internet.