Winter is the high-risk season for sudden diseases of the elderly, especially under the influence of cold weather, the risk of sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly will be higher, and a statistical survey data from China shows that the number of sudden deaths due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in winter is 41% higher than that in summer, and most of them are elderly.
Now it is the cold winter waxing moon, but also the coldest "March 9" season of the year, in the cold season, how should the elderly friends do to minimize the risk of sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in winter? Today's popular science article, let's talk to you about this topic, the article may be a little long, but it is recommended that you read it carefully, I believe there will be gains.
Winter weather is cold, for the elderly whose body has gradually aged, the impact is often greater, especially in terms of blood pressure, many elderly friends with hypertension problems, originally well controlled blood pressure, with the sudden drop in temperature, there will also be a situation that is difficult to control, which greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of some elderly friends.
After the winter weather becomes colder, there are many elderly friends whose activity volume also gradually declines, and the decline in this amount of activity also brings about the impact of slow metabolism, weight gain, etc., while the blood circulation speed will also be affected, and the rupture of arteriosclerotic plaque will also greatly increase the risk of causing thrombosis.
In addition to the above two reasons, the impact of psychological and emotional aspects cannot be ignored. Winter is the high incidence of seasonal emotional disorders in the elderly, due to the winter activity becomes less, the sunshine becomes less, the human biological clock and biological rhythm change, and if the elderly's body does not adapt to this change, it will also lead to emotional and psychological disorders, resulting in depression, anxiety and other bad emotions, and the impact of these bad emotions will further affect the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health of the elderly, resulting in the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular acute events.
Therefore, it is very important for the elderly to do a good job in the prevention of cardiovascular disease risk control in winter and actively do a good job in all aspects of health conditioning, and today we will focus on 5 aspects for everyone.
Spend the winter safely, pay attention to healthy life conditioning
The elderly want to reduce the impact of sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular acute events in winter, and doing a good job of conditioning intervention in life is the most important basis for prevention.
In terms of healthy diet, although the winter weather is cold, it is appropriate to eat more warm food, but also pay attention to the diet not to be too thick and sweet, so as not to cause the rise of triglycerides and weight increase, bring more health risks, reasonable arrangement of diet, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, eggs reasonable collocation, eat more whole grains, elderly friends in terms of diet, do not be afraid of trouble, reasonable arrangement of nutritional intake, do not overdose, and do not be too frugal to lead to malnutrition, are very important.
Exercise is still very important, in cold weather, moderate exercise can maintain physical vitality, but also help to improve metabolic function, enhance cardiopulmonary function, enhance the body's immunity, while improving mood, avoid depression also has an important role.
Maintain good sleep, for the winter elderly friends are more important, winter night long day short, is more suitable for the good season of sleep, may wish to arrange their own work and rest time reasonably, do not fall asleep too early, do not get up too early, try to ensure 7 to 8 hours of healthy sleep every day.
Safe winter, pay attention not to stop the drug indiscriminately
Some drugs for the treatment of chronic diseases require long-term regular medication to control disease problems, but the common situation of many elderly friends is that drugs are always eaten and stopped, or when there is discomfort before taking medicine, these practices are wrong practices that increase the risk of major diseases.
Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and other chronic disease problems, are closely related to the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and under the influence of cold weather in winter, the risk of fluctuations in blood pressure and blood sugar is also higher, therefore, in the winter for elderly friends with related disease problems, do not stop taking related control drugs at will, so as not to soar blood pressure, blood sugar induce the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.
In addition to taking medicine, you should also pay attention to the point is to do a good job of monitoring, blood pressure, blood glucose monitoring can usually be carried out at home, if found in the winter blood pressure, blood sugar out of control, again the situation, should be timely adjustment of the medication program, further strengthen control, for the elderly friends with three high problems, want to reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, in general, blood pressure should be controlled to 130/80 or less, lipid LDL cholesterol should be controlled to at least 2.6mmol / L below (the control of existing cardiovascular diseases to 1.8); the glycosylated hemoglobin level of blood glucose is controlled to less than 7.0%, only by reasonably controlling these risk chronic diseases and maintaining the stability of the above indicators can the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases be better reduced.
To spend the winter safely, we must pay attention to maintaining a good and peaceful attitude
The importance of psychological regulation, which we say separately, is because it is an important aspect that is very easy to overlook, but in fact it is easy to cause disease risk in winter.
As we have mentioned above, winter is the high incidence of seasonal emotional disorders, and the elderly are high-incidence groups with such problems due to the weakening of physical regulation ability, so it is also very important to understand the risk of this emotional change, to see everything open, and to keep yourself peaceful and optimistic, which is also very important for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
In order to do this, reasonable exercise is essential, in addition, you should also pay attention to socializing, keeping in touch with your family, smiling more, finding your sense of purpose and value, doing more good deeds, being lenient, being able to do the above points, maintaining good mood, and it is not difficult.
To spend the winter safely, we should pay attention to two risk periods
The elderly in the winter is the season of high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and in terms of time, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases suddenly have two high-risk periods in winter, that is, early morning and night.
After getting up in the morning, the human body's sympathetic nervous system will be reactivated, the heart rate will accelerate, the blood pressure will rise, and in most cases there will be a morning peak stage of blood pressure, so this time is also a high-risk period for sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; when resting at night, the heartbeat slows down, the blood flow rate becomes slower, and if at this time coupled with the impact of nocturnal hypertension (common to many elderly hypertensive patients), the risk of sudden diseases at night will be further increased, plus the night is in the sleep stage, sometimes the sudden disease family is difficult to find, It is also an important risk factor.
Therefore, elderly friends in the winter, must pay attention to these two risk periods, early in the morning when getting up must be slower, wake up first lie down for a while, then sit up and sit for a while, and then slowly get out of bed; after getting up in the morning, you can first drink a cup of warm water, help to supplement the water lost at night, to avoid the impact of blood viscosity; sports and exercise friends, should also avoid this period after getting up in the morning, choose the period before lunch or afternoon, the temperature is relatively high, but also avoid the impact of morning peak blood pressure; for friends with nighttime hypertension problems, It is an option to take antihypertensive drugs at night before going to bed, which can help reduce the risk of high blood pressure at night.
To spend the winter safely, we must pay attention to the influence of undesirable factors
In addition to the above aspects of the precautions, some of the details of life are also worth noting, sometimes some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, often is a "small thing" induced, the following 4 aspects, are worthy of our special attention -
Avoid sudden cold irritation: It is important to keep warm in winter, and sudden cold stimulation should be avoided as much as possible.
Avoid the effects of anger: Bad temper must be changed, anger will not only hurt the body, but also induce heart attack, stroke and other diseases.
Avoid the effects of tobacco and alcohol: Smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, may affect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, but also may increase the risk of disease.
Avoid the effects of constipation: in winter, we should pay more attention to good conditioning, and defecation is too hard when constipated, which will also bring risks to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The above 5 aspects, are the elderly caused by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of some risk points and precautions, I hope to be able to see the friends have a certain help and benefit, if you for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease risks, what related problems, also welcome to leave a message below, we can continue to explore.