Atherosclerosis risk factors

The main cause of atherosclerosis is three major risk factors include hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking. Other factor is obesity, diabetes, lack of exercise, tension, old age, family medical history.

Hypertension: a long-term impact of high-pressure blood flow can cause arterial wall intima mechanical injury, resulting in the arterial wall lipid deposition easily, and cause the formation of fatty plaques of atherosclerosis stenosis. Blood pressure control, the incidence of myocardial infarction of about 2 ~ 3 times the stroke is about 4 times.

Hyperlipidemia: high blood fat deposition in the vascular wall more prone to the formation of plaque, resulting in a narrow artery.

Diabetes: Patient with diabetes have fat metabolism problem. During the delivery of fatty by blood circulation, the protein is deterioration, in the course of delivery easy occur fat deposition in the vascular wall to form fatty plaques.

Smoking: Nicotine in cigarettes, carbon monoxide, such as arterial wall damage, injury of the artery wall will block cholesterol accumulation caused by the formation of platelet fatty plaque. At the same time, smoking can also lead to contraction of coronary artery spasm, reducing blood flow.

Lack of exercise: exercise can increase high-density lipoprotein, LDL reduction, to help the body to excess cholesterol from the bile duct and intestinal body, to avoid deposition of excess cholesterol in the blood vessel wall. In addition, exercise can promote blood circulation, increase blood vessel elasticity, lowering blood pressure, excess consumption of calories, so reducing the proportion of body fat, increased muscle, and lose weight. Therefore the lack of movement can easily be porridge-like atherosclerosis.

Obesity: obese or overweight people, heart heavier load, abnormal blood fat and higher probability, thus increasing the risk of porridge-like atherosclerosis. Obesity, easy to trigger high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance syndrome resistance.
Too much pressure: the pressure will increase because of the secretion of adrenaline, thus causing high blood pressure, heart rate, arterial wall injury.

Family medical history: refers to the genetic factors, so that some early genetic artery disease occurs, its causes have not yet specified, some severe hypercholesterolemia, the plot again and again in the blood, which triggers the occurrence of atherosclerosis. Some early-onset hypertension, or thrombosis, such as prone.