Caring for the heart with the heart

What is a “double” heart disease? Cardiovascular disease is a global disease that seriously endangers human health, and along with the increasing aging in China, the incidence of cardiovascular disease is increasing as people’s living standards are improving. The key to cardiovascular disease is in prevention and disease management, so how do we usually carry out scientific prevention and management of it? Patients should not only pay attention to the rational use of drugs, diet control, and establish a good lifestyle, but also pay attention to the “heart” to care for the heart, that is, to prevent cardiovascular disease by maintaining a healthy psychology, and slow down the progress of cardiovascular disease. How does the “heart” lesion occur? The idea of taking care of the heart with the heart is based on the theoretical foundation of modern “bicardial medicine”. “Dual heart medicine” is a new discipline that consists of the intersection of cardiovascular and psychological medicine, referring to both cardiovascular disease and psychological disease. It emphasizes that while patients suffer from physical cardiovascular diseases, they should also pay attention to their psychosomatic problems and achieve multi-level and multi-faceted interventions. Many studies in recent years have shown that patients with cardiovascular disease often have a combination of psychosomatic disorders due to lack of understanding of the disease, concern about the quality of treatment, and excessive psychological stress. For example, in clinical practice we often find that there are some patients with not very serious organic lesions of the heart, but with heavy clinical symptoms; then there are some patients who do have cardiovascular disease, but after medication or interventional procedures, the reduction of symptoms is not obvious, which seriously affects their quality of life. Such a situation is often due to cardiovascular disease generating psychosomatic disorders of medical origin, and in turn the abnormal psychosomatic problems contribute to the aggravation or worsening of the somatic disease of heart disease. The two interact with each other, eventually making cardiovascular disease a vicious circle. Therefore, in the process of prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, patients should pay attention to their own mental and psychological aspects of timely grooming, prevention and treatment of abnormal mental and psychological problems: first of all, patients should have a correct understanding of cardiovascular disease, do not allow themselves to produce excessive worry; then patients should uphold the prognosis of cardiovascular disease Patients should maintain an optimistic attitude toward the prognosis of cardiovascular disease and remove the psychological burden; at the same time, patients should also maintain confidence in medical workers and medical quality to relieve their anxiety. The prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases should achieve the overall harmony of body and mind. We should build health together in both heart and psychological aspects, and take care of the heart with “heart”.