World Heart Day is celebrated every year on the last Sunday of September, and the theme of this year’s World Heart Day is “A Healthy Heart Environment”. Heart disease is the number one threat to human health, and coronary heart disease is a common type of heart disease, and China is the second largest country in the world in terms of coronary heart disease deaths. As the incidence of coronary heart disease is increasing, how should coronary heart disease be prevented and treated? What should we do to create a “healthy heart environment”? The symptoms of angina pectoris should be seen by a doctor in time, and the risk factors for coronary heart disease should be actively treated and controlled.
Who is more likely to induce heart disease?
Diabetics are 5 to 10 times more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than non-diabetics
”Which high-risk groups are more likely to develop coronary heart disease?” In the family doctor online consultation post many netizens raised such questions. Director Zhou Tao pointed out that the occurrence of coronary heart disease can be analyzed from two factors.
On the one hand, people who suffer from hypertension, hyperlipidemia and smoking are at high risk of coronary heart disease. In addition, patients with diabetes have a higher probability of getting coronary heart disease. Diabetes can be called the “equal risk” of coronary heart disease, Zhou Tao director also pointed out that, according to research, diabetics are 5-10 times more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than people without diabetes. But these are controllable factors, in daily life to correct bad habits, control the risk factors of coronary heart disease can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease.
On the other hand, there are some uncontrollable factors that affect the incidence of coronary heart disease, such as: age, as age increases, the higher the incidence, the higher the proportion of elderly people suffering from coronary heart disease; followed by genetics, if parents or grandparents suffer from coronary heart disease, the probability of their own coronary heart disease will increase; gender is also a major factor that induces coronary heart disease, the human body’s estrogen has a very good cardiovascular protection. Therefore, the probability of coronary heart disease in women before menopause is very low, and the incidence of coronary heart disease after menopause is close to that of men.
See your doctor if you have angina pectoris
Ninety percent of patients will have angina in the precordial region
In a recent online questionnaire survey conducted by Family Doctor Online, 56% of the respondents believed that angina was a symptom of coronary heart disease that they knew about. In this regard, Director Zhou Tao pointed out that the most typical symptom of coronary heart disease is angina, but there is a big difference with the pain in daily life, angina is actually not “pain”. Angina is, in professional terms, an unbearable pressure and suffocating feeling in the precordial area, that is, an indefinable unpleasant sensation in the precordial area during activity or emotional excitement, which is not the same thing as physical pain. Sometimes it can also manifest as palpitations, tightness in the throat and pain in the back of the shoulder. Director Zhou Tao also analyzed in detail the five characteristics of a typical coronary attack.
1, 90% or more than 85% of patients’ angina usually occurs in the precordial region or behind the sternum;
2, the patient angina attack usually has obvious triggering or relieving factors, sitting quietly or nothing, but out walking or work will feel uncomfortable, there are also some are containing nitroglycerin can be relieved;
3, angina attack for the crushing, stuffy or tight feeling, sometimes accompanied by a sense of fear of dying;
4, the attack is not too long, usually 5 to 10 minutes, rarely more than half an hour, but can be many times a day; if the time is too long, either not angina, or has developed as a myocardial infarction.
5, often combined with radiating pain, radiating to the left shoulder, the left inner arm up to the ring finger and little finger, sometimes to the jaw, neck or pharynx.
Director Zhou Tao especially reminds that if the above-mentioned angina-like symptoms occur when the attack should be promptly seen by a doctor, not to be ignored, under the guidance of doctors to do electrocardiogram, dynamic electrocardiogram, exercise plate or coronary CTA or even coronary angiography and other tests.
How to give first aid in a sudden attack of coronary heart disease?
It is not advisable to run to the hospital when the angina attack cannot be relieved
It is very important to know about the first aid of coronary heart disease. Patients who have symptoms are advised to keep quick-acting heart pills and nitroglycerin with them, and these drugs should be placed in an easy-to-reach place at home. Because sometimes there are some patients will be in the bowel movement or dry chores will attack coronary heart disease, can be timely medication is very critical; In addition, go out also to carry some emergency drugs.
Angina attack should be promptly to the hospital. If patients find themselves in angina and other symptoms can not be relieved, containing nitroglycerin or quick-acting heart pills at the same time, with the help of the side of the public telephone or help from the next person to call 120, do not run or fast walk to the hospital, because the more anxious you are, the more movement, heart rate accelerates, heart load increases, the more serious myocardial ischemia. If the next person has first aid experience, you can use first aid methods such as cardiac compressions.
Can drinking tea prevent coronary heart disease?
Remind coronary heart patients should not drink tea at night
There are many netizens think that “drinking tea can prevent coronary heart disease”, director Zhou Tao believes that this is a folk saying, drinking tea is a national treasure of China, but there is no official research to prove that tea has the effect of preventing coronary heart disease. But for drinking tea, should be viewed from two aspects: on the one hand, drinking tea can increase sympathetic excitation, have the effect of raising blood pressure, while patients with coronary heart disease is to inhibit sympathetic excitation. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease should not drink strong tea. Especially people with heavy coronary heart disease should not drink tea, especially at night, and not drink strong tea.
For people who do not have coronary heart disease can drink tea, because tea has a lipid-lowering effect, and unfermented green tea has certain benefits for the regulation of blood lipids.
Prevention of coronary heart disease should start from daily life
Optimism, love to exercise to help keep away from coronary heart disease
There are many risk factors for coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, high blood lipids, obesity are all high risk factors for coronary heart disease, from childhood to develop a healthy diet and regular rest habits, more exercise, lively and cheerful personality is very useful to reduce the occurrence of coronary heart disease.
Studies have confirmed that there is a relationship between personality and the occurrence of coronary heart disease, especially type A personality; people with anxiety and depression have a high probability of suffering from coronary heart disease and affect the prognosis, because this personality can seriously affect a person’s healthy lifestyle.