A seemingly healthy young man died suddenly, probably because …

Recently, the frequent news of sudden death has aroused everyone’s discussion.

Increasing work pressure and faster pace of life make sudden death a health anxiety for many people.

According to the 2020 National Health Insight Report, 53% people were worried about their sudden death. Among the young post-95 s and post-00 s, 7% and 9% people often even worry about their sudden death every day, and this group of people is only in their twenties this year.

But in fact, as long as you master the knowledge of cardiovascular metabolic disease prevention and make a risk assessment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, you don’t have to worry too much about the risk of sudden death.

What is cardiovascular metabolic disease?

Cardiovascular metabolic diseases include hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.The primary cause of death and disease burden of residents in China.

Smoking;

Drinking alcohol;

Unhealthy diet;

Sedentary.

These bad living habits are the main risk factors for the sharp rise of cardiovascular metabolic diseases.

Elevated blood pressure, abdominal obesity, abnormal glucose metabolism, elevated triglyceride (TG) and decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and at least three of these five indicators are abnormal, which can be called increased cardiovascular metabolic risk.

Remarks: Table 2 is taken from the Guidelines for Healthy Lifestyle Prevention of Cardiovascular Metabolic Diseases in China.

Healthy lifestyle

It is an important cornerstone for the prevention and management of cardiovascular metabolic diseases.

For people with increased metabolic risk, no matter whether they are treated with drugs or not, they need to adhere to a healthy lifestyle, including improving diet, controlling weight, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, and increasing physical activity appropriately after fully evaluating safety.

If you have no abnormal indicators, but still care about your health, you might as well set yourself some small goals:

Go to bed early for ten minutes today;

Eat more vegetables tomorrow;

Challenge not to drink sweet drinks in January;

Stand up and move after working for half an hour;

Have a comprehensive physical examination once a year;

……

The tragedy of sudden death should not be repeated again and again. These small health goals are the first step to self-rescue.

Cardiovascular disease is also the main cause of death in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Relevant prevention and treatment guidelines in China suggest that once the diagnosis of NAFLD is confirmed, the metabolic disorder and cardiovascular risk of patients should be evaluated in time.

Writer: Zhang Wei Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University

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