Post Date April, 15 2023
First of all, let me ask you a small question: Do you know what is the main cause of unnatural deaths among Chinese residents?
Cancer? Accidental injury? Infectious diseases? Suicide?
None of them!
The top ranked diseases are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as stroke and coronary heart disease. More than half of people die from this type of disease.
Many patients believe that they will die if they get uremia, but in fact, uremic patients can receive effective treatment through regular dialysis or kidney transplantation. But like other residents, the topic that kidney friends cannot avoid is also vascular diseases of the heart and brain!
Why is it so easy for everyone to get cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases?
If you know how many people in our country have high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, smoking and drinking, lack of physical exercise, and heavy life and work pressure, you can easily understand why we have so many people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems!
Originally, our normal blood vessels are smooth and elastic, but if there are reasons such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, fat accumulation, and poor living habits, our blood vessels become fragile and narrow.
"The organs of our body are all fed by blood in the blood vessels. If there is a problem with the delivery pipeline, can the organs still be healed?"?
Nowadays, we often see some news reports that when we reach the peak of our lives at a young age, life suddenly stops, mostly due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases!
It has to be exclaimed that many people aged 30 have blood vessels aged 70!
Even doctors are sighing, why do more and more people in their 30s and 40s now need stents to support their blood vessels like elderly patients?
Why is chronic kidney disease prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases?
In addition to the factors mentioned earlier, such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and smoking, chronic kidney disease can also lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems.
These problems of kidney friends: proteinuria, anemia, calcium and phosphorus disorders, stubborn retention of water and sodium, micro inflammation, malnutrition and other reasons will aggravate the occurrence and development of cardiovascular diseases.
Research suggests that the seeds of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases begin to be planted at the beginning of stage 1 of chronic kidney disease, which is the earliest stage of chronic kidney disease. Even without other risk factors, chronic kidney disease is more likely to develop cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases than ordinary people!
With the decline of renal function, this seed takes root, germinates, and grows under certain conditions of irrigation, making many patients with chronic kidney disease pay a heavy price for this.
So we need to prepare in advance!
"With this evil seed, we must strangle it in the cradle, not water and fertilize it, and have the confidence and consciousness to stamp it out and maim it, not let it do evil!"!
When is a seed of evil easiest to control? When it was just a seed! The occurrence and development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are not overnight, and they require accumulation over time. Therefore, we should pay attention to them before they form a climate, focusing on prevention, and achieving the best results.
When it grows into a towering tree, we have to use some extreme methods to remove the threat. "Like severe cardiovascular diseases, where blood vessels are clogged too much, we may need to use surgical bypass and stent placement in the blood vessels.". Moreover, it is not a one-time solution. If a large blood vessel is blocked, other blood vessels will not be much better, and the quality of life of patients will be significantly affected.
How to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases?
1. Concept: A correct concept of disease is the prerequisite for all prevention and treatment. Stop thinking that cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are a concern for older people, and young people also need them. Patients with chronic kidney disease need more attention!
2. Habits: Smoking, lack of physical activity, excess nutrition, and malnutrition can all contribute to the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, quitting smoking, increasing exercise, and excessive nutrition require limiting diet, while malnutrition requires correcting nutritional status. If these poor living habits exist, they should be improved one by one.
3. Control blood pressure and blood sugar: Blood pressure should be less than 140/90mmHg, and protein should be less than 130/80mmHg when it is greater than 1g.
Some people have a strange attitude towards blood pressure lowering drugs because they are afraid of becoming dependent on them, and they often eat them one meal at a time.
If the condition requires high blood pressure, you should continue to take blood pressure medication regularly. It is the condition that requires antihypertensive drugs, not your dependence on antihypertensive drugs that leads to high blood pressure. This logic needs to be clarified.
4. Hypolipidemia: The blood lipids increase. If your diet cannot be controlled, your doctor may give you lipid-lowering drugs.
5. Control urinary protein, correct severe anemia and disorder of calcium and phosphorus metabolism
6. Application of antiplatelet drugs: For patients with chronic kidney disease who already have cardiovascular diseases, doctors may recommend continuous low dose use of antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin or PLAVIX to prevent cardiovascular accidents, such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
