Prevention of atherosclerosis in young people is primarily about avoiding overweight and obesity - according to cardiologists.
Young people, who are over ten years old and start to suffer from overweight or have too high blood pressure, are at risk of being crushed. Atherosclerosis begins with the deposition of fat cells on the inner walls of the arteries, which makes them lose their normal elasticity. When the layer of fat reduces the "light" of the artery, hypertension appears and the danger of detachment from the wall of the vessel of the cholinerol plaque increases. Wandering lamella clogs their light - causes a blood clot and embolism - and depending on the location causes a heart attack or stroke. These dangerous dangers in many obese people before the age of thirty.
Particularly important in the development of atherosclerosis
the so-called. visceral fat tissue. Obesity initiates
also hypertension and lipid disorders
Obesity initiates pathologies of blood circulation
1. Obesity initiates type 2 diabetes, which is the recognized cause of the disease syndrome, called the diabetic foot and minor retinal vascular lesions in the area of the yellow macula threatening with blindness - referred to as diabetic retinopathy.
Diabetic foot syndrome
Diabetic retinopathy
2. Obesity initiates hypertension and lipid disorders. The latter are: an increase in triglycerides and total cholesterol and LDL and a decrease in the concentration of "good" HDL cholesterol in the blood, the presence of which prevents atherosclerosis.
Hypertension, cholesterol and diabetes
Obesity is now the recognized direct agent of circulatory disorders.
It is worth noting that for many years the risk of coronary heart disease has been attributed to the pathologies dependent on obesity presented above. However, in the last 20 years, it has also been recognized that obesity itself influences independently the risk of cardiovascular disease - including the occurrence of coronary heart disease
The risk of developing hypertension increases twice as much as 20% overweight and is even greater when the patient is younger.
It was estimated that after taking into account other risk factors, each increase in body weight by one kilogram increases the risk of developing hypertension by 4.4%.
Is slimming an effective method of normalizing hypertension?
By. well-known cardiologist prof. doctor Andrzej Kaliciński - when the patients lose weight, with the loss of 10 kg of their body weight - their systolic blood pressure decreases by 20 mm Hg, and diastolic blood pressure by 10-15 mm Hg. Some practitioners say that if you have 18 - 24 kg of overweight - then "dumping them" can bring the pressure to normal. Anyway, it is beneficial for every, even a slight reduction in body weight, in these people, because it can cause a reduction in hypertension.
Is overweight an important problem for people with hypertension?
Definitely yes. About 50% of patients with hypertension are overweight, which is considered by many doctors as a favorable condition for hypertensive disease. A study of a large group of patients in Poland has shown that the increasing values of hypertension are accompanied by an increase in body weight, and in addition, increasing levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. These last symptoms herald the growing risk of atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and heart attacks and strokes. In addition, these individuals were more often than in healthy people, inferior in prognosis the android type of obesity.
Slimming lowers hypertension
Obesity also affects the so-called haemodynamic function of circulation.
As a result of the increased amount of adipose tissue, the body's oxygen demand is significantly increased. The heart does a greater job; its minute capacity is increased, which leads to the loading of the left ventricle and its hypertrophy and the development of heart failure.
Obesity and the risk of thromboembolism.
In addition, excessive body weight correlates positively with increased blood clotting. There is a higher level of fibrinogen, factor VII, and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in the blood, which means an increased risk of thrombosis.
