Atherosclerosis “rain woman no melon”? 9 years old need to beware!

  Atherosclerosis is a vascular disease that causes the walls of arteries to thicken, harden, lose elasticity and narrow the lumen. Many elderly people suffer from cardiovascular diseases in their later years, which some people think is a reflection of “old age and body failure”. However, atherosclerosis is likely to have occurred at a young age, but the signs are not obvious and people do not notice the disease until it worsens in old age.  A new study published in a sub-publication of The Lancet showed a positive correlation between total body fat and the degree of atherosclerosis, and the strength of the association was higher at age 9 than at age 17.  Therefore, in the current environment of “prevalent” adolescent obesity, many people may develop atherosclerosis in their teenage years.  In this research project, researchers found that preventing obesity at an early age is more beneficial to future cardiovascular health. People only know the effect of obesity on their appearance, but they ignore what fat does in our bodies. The more serious the obesity, the greater the pressure on the cardiovascular system, which is why obesity-related cardiovascular complications such as dyslipidemia, hypertension and myocardial infarction are common in obese people.  Undeniably, compared with the young stage, the human body in old age due to cell aging, metabolic function and immunity decline and other reasons prone to a variety of diseases. But this is based on the premise that the human body is in a healthy state, and the effect of obesity on the human body is enough to make the body of 9 years old reach the age of several dozen years old, so weight loss is a matter of urgency.  Bariatric surgery is a surgical weight loss method that is recognized and widely used by the medical community, and it has even become one of the most popular weight loss methods in developed countries and regions abroad. In general, the minimum age for weight loss surgery is 16 years old, so in the process of preventing childhood obesity, it is recommended to know about weight loss surgery if you still don’t see results when you reach the age of surgery.