Self-care for patients with coronary heart disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a common cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and elderly people, and its development is often associated with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, lack of physical activity, diabetes mellitus and their family history of CHD. Eliminating the risk factors of coronary heart disease is an effective way to prevent its development. Reasonable Nutrition: Reasonable nutritional habits are important measures to prevent coronary heart disease. 1. Stabilize the intake of food, and keep the good tradition of “five grains for nourishment”. 2, appropriate supplementation of animal foods, and increase the intake of soy foods, improve the quantity and quality of protein in soybeans, but to prevent excess intake. 3, change the structure of animal food mainly pork, increase the intake of poultry, aquatic products and dairy. 4, to ensure that the intake of vegetables and fruits, while increasing the intake of plant fiber. 5, prohibit overeating, especially dinner is not easy to overfill, so as not to induce angina or myocardial infarction. In short, through the reasonable regulation of dietary structure, can effectively prevent the occurrence of high blood fat, diabetes, obesity and other diseases, thereby reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease. Treatment of hypertension: Hypertension is one of the main risk period factors inducing coronary heart disease, therefore, hypertensive patients should enhance the awareness of self-care, and control their hypertension at normal or near-normal range through drug and non-drug treatment. Appropriate physical activities: long-term adherence to physical exercise can promote blood circulation, increase the heart beat volume, make the coronary artery dilation, increase myocardial blood supply, reduce triglyceride, and prevent the occurrence of coronary heart disease. In addition, should also quit smoking, change alcoholism and other bad habits.