Health wealth June 25, 2012 Health care medical professor’s twelve words prescription for vascular health Shanghai Changhai Hospital vascular surgery Jing Zaiping open your legs, control your mouth, take less medicine, drink more water this newspaper reporter Jiang Meiqin human blood vessels, like the river of life, carrying nutrition nourishing tissues and organs throughout the body, while also filtering and removing certain metabolic wastes from the organism. Therefore, the health of the vascular system is closely related to the health of the tissues and organs of the whole body. Once the vascular system is diseased, the whole body may be threatened, and it is really a hair that moves the whole body. “Nine high and one low” threaten vascular health Professor Jing Zaiping, director of vascular surgery at Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, said that vascular diseases are mainly divided into: arterial disease, including arterial occlusive disease, arterial dilatation disease, aortic stenosis, etc.; venous disease, including venous dilatation disease, venous occlusive disease, venous reflux disease; combined arteriovenous disease, including congenital arteriovenous fistula, arteriovenous stenosis, etc. including congenital arteriovenous fistula, traumatic aneurysm, etc. There are many causes of vascular system diseases, which Prof. Jing summarized as “nine highs and one low”. Nine highs are high age, high blood sugar, high blood fat, high uric acid, high creatinine, high blood viscosity, high blood pressure, high weight, and high stress; one low is low exercise. Vascular system diseases are characterized by high morbidity, high mortality and high disability. Therefore, the vascular system has been facing an unprecedented disease crisis. The twelve-word prescription for vascular health is the objective law of human evolution, and human aging and disease are irresistible, however, unhealthy lifestyle is an important factor to promote aging and disease. Therefore, we avoid or slow down the occurrence of these predisposing factors by changing some lifestyles in the first place to play a good preventive role. Professor Jing prescribes a prescription for vascular health, which is: open your legs, keep your mouth shut, take less medicine and drink more water. Open your legs: reasonable exercise has an undeniable role in promoting the health of blood vessels, which not only promotes the metabolism of substances in blood vessels, but also enhances the elasticity of blood vessels. Therefore, according to their physical condition, choose the appropriate exercise, persistent, persistent exercise, will be able to promote the health of blood vessels. Good mouth: in today’s increasingly rich material life, bad eating habits have become the culprit of many diseases, a variety of rich diseases more and more. Therefore, good control of the mouth is one of the important measures to prevent a variety of diseases. Take less medicine: medicine is three parts poison, unless the disease requires, can not take medicine, do not take medicine. In particular, some elderly patients with chronic diseases, to eat a dozen or twenty pills a day, completely become a “medicine jar”. In this case, be sure to consult a specialist or clinician to avoid repeated medication and withdraw non-essential medication. Drink more water: water is an indispensable substance for metabolism, and it also cleanses the stomach and intestines, dilutes the blood, takes away unhealthy substances, reduces the chance of blood coagulation diseases, and promotes the health of the vascular system. In conclusion, active prevention and treatment can reduce the chance of vascular system diseases, improve the quality of life of patients, and reduce the economic burden of families and society. Expert Profile Professor Jing Zaiping, chief physician, doctoral supervisor, director of the Department of Surgery Teaching and Research, General Surgery and Vascular Surgery of Changhai Hospital, Shanghai Second Military Medical University, director of Shanghai Clinical Medical Center for Vascular System Diseases, director of the All-Army Vascular Surgery Institute, deputy head of the National Vascular Surgery Group, head of the All-Army Vascular Surgery Group enjoys special allowance of the State Council. He specializes in minimally invasive endoluminal treatment of heart valves and aortic coarctation aneurysms. Special Needs Clinic Hours: Monday morning and Wednesday morning.