What are the effective ways to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases?

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are common clinical diseases, which have a certain impact on people's physical health and can be life-threatening in severe cases. Therefore, it is very important to do a good job of prevention. As for the effective methods to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, we must improve our living habits and eating habits.

1. Reasonable diet

Various investigations and studies have shown that nutrition is closely related to life expectancy and geriatric diseases. A preference for fatty and greasy food and a preference for salty and sweet food are not good for the health of the elderly. Therefore, the importance of a low-fat, low-calorie diet for the elderly should be emphasized, and the diet should be mainly rich in protein, vitamins, trace elements and crude fiber. In recent years, some people have also pointed out that a low-salt diet can reduce the degree of osteoporosis, restore the elasticity of hardened arteries, and emphasize the importance of a low-salt diet in the prevention and treatment of hypertension. Therefore, a low-salt diet is also one of the conditions for preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly.

2. Scientific Life

1. Strengthen physical exercise: exercise for 1 hour every day, and the heart rate during activity should not exceed 170 times the difference between the age, or the body should sweat slightly, not feel tired, and feel relaxed after exercise. Exercise at least 5 days a week and persist.

2. Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption: Long-term smoking and alcohol abuse can interfere with blood lipid metabolism and increase blood lipids.

3. Avoid mental stress: emotional excitement, insomnia, overwork, irregular life, anxiety, and depression. These factors can cause lipid metabolism disorders. Middle-aged and elderly people should not play mahjong or chess for a long time. They should keep calm and try to avoid getting angry.

(III) Take as few drugs as possible that interfere with lipid metabolism

Such as beta-blockers, propranolol, diuretics, hydrochlorothiazide, furosemide, steroid hormones, etc., can all increase blood lipids.

(IV) Actively treat diseases that affect blood lipid metabolism

Diseases such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, nephrotic syndrome, alcoholism, pancreatitis, lupus erythematosus, etc. can all interfere with lipid metabolism.

(V) Regular physical examination

Middle-aged people over 45 years old, obese people, people with a family history of hyperlipidemia, people who often attend eating and drinking social events, and people who work under high mental stress are all high-risk groups and should check their blood lipids, blood pressure and other indicators regularly (at least once a year).