In China, the proportion of people with dyslipidemia accounts for 18.6%, which means that more than 200 million people in the mainland suffer from hyperlipidemia. As one of the "three high" diseases, hyperlipidemia is closely related to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, in life, many people still have misunderstandings about high blood lipids, and under the influence of bad living habits, high blood lipids are more harmful to our health.
Therefore, it is necessary to understand the common sense of hyperlipidemia and maintain the stability of blood lipid levels through reasonable methods. Otherwise, patients with hyperlipidemia use incorrect methods to control blood lipids, and due to listening to rumors and wrong practices, this may lead to unstable blood lipid indicators, resulting in abnormalities in the body, and over time, our body is more susceptible to disease.
Reminder: After the age of 50, if you want to safely lower blood lipids, these 5 misunderstandings should be avoided
1. Only obese people get high blood lipids?
In the public impression, high blood lipids are often associated with obese people, while blood lipids of slim people are often overlooked. In fact, people's blood lipid levels are not necessarily related to their body size. The cause of high blood lipids in life is not only caused by obesity, but also related to environmental and genetic factors. At the same time, hyperlipidemia is also related to diabetes, nephrotic syndrome, hypothyroidism, chronic obstructive liver disease, pancreatitis, gout, etc. in life.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for hyperlipidemia to occur in thin people. In clinical practice, it has also been found that most of the characteristics of thin hyperlipidemia are low elevation of LDL cholesterol, while HDL cholesterol tends to be lower than normal levels, and such patients are also prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
2. Patients with high blood lipids cannot eat eggs?
This is a misperception of hyperlipidemia by many people, because many people believe that eggs are high in cholesterol and eating too much increases the cholesterol component in the blood, thus exacerbating hyperlipidemia. In fact, the cholesterol content in an egg is about 200 mg, and for hyperlipidemia patients, the daily cholesterol intake should not be higher than 300 mg, so eating an egg is not excessive. However, it is also important to note that after eating up to one egg per day, the rest of the diet requires strict control of cholesterol intake.
3. Do patients with hyperlipidemia need treatment if they have no symptoms?
Since in most cases, patients with early hyperlipidemia will not have obvious uncomfortable symptoms, many people regard dyslipidemia as a chronic disease like hypertension and diabetes, and feel that it will not cause major problems in the short term. However, in fact, if hyperlipidemia is not controlled for a long time, it can easily lead to cardiovascular diseases such as cardiac arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction.
At the same time, once the blood lipid becomes high, it may also cause cerebrovascular disease, which is mainly due to cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage caused by cerebral vascular sclerosis. In addition, high blood lipids can also cause kidney disease, and renal arteriosclerosis can easily lead to uremia. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of the above heart, brain and kidney diseases, the treatment of lowering blood lipids cannot be ignored.
4. Can patients with high blood lipids not eat oil?
Some people think that high blood lipids are only caused by eating too much oil, therefore, do not eat anything with oil in life. But in fact, this understanding is too one-sided. This is because the right amount of oil not only provides fatty acids needed by the body, promotes the absorption of beneficial substances such as vitamins, but also prevents gallstones.
5. Is blood viscosity high in blood lipids?
Many people think that their blood is high after discovering that their blood viscosity is high. In fact, this is not the case. This is because since blood viscosity refers to an increase in the number of components in the blood and a decrease in blood flow rate, there are many factors that affect it, such as increased platelets, increased plasma proteins, high blood sugar, and high blood lipids. Therefore, hyperlipidemia is only one of the causes, do not draw an equal sign between the two.
The above are some of the misunderstandings that people tend to have when treating hyperlipidemia. I hope that reading this article can help patients with hyperlipidemia get rid of some misunderstandings about lowering blood lipids in time. In addition, during the period of taking drugs, we must also pay attention to our daily diet, so as to better help ourselves get rid of the "entanglement" of high blood lipids.