There Are Four Reasons for High Blood Fat in Middle-Aged and Elderly People

The factors of hyperlipidemia in the middle-aged and elderly are elevated blood lipids. Some people have made multiple studies and believe that 90% of people with elevated blood lipids are related to diet.

The amount of food consumed in general, and the amount of fat in particular, is excessive. This is due to a bad lifestyle.

The diet is based on the principle of likes and dislikes, with big fish and big meat every day, no hunger and no satiety, greasy, heavy taste, drinking, smoking, plus tension and busy work, psychological and spiritual burden pressure, and little participation in sports and so on.

More than 90% of the causes of hyperlipidemia are:

Primary hyperlipoproteinemia is a familial defect of fat metabolism due to gene mutation. It is characterized by significant increase in blood lipids, early onset, and multiple cases in the family.

Secondary hyperlipoproteinemia, which means that certain diseases can cause elevated blood lipids.

Such as diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, nephrotic syndrome, primary biliary cirrhosis, bile duct obstruction, liver disease, alcoholism and oral contraceptives may also cause secondary hyperlipidemia.

As for why there are more hyperlipidemia among middle-aged and elderly people, there may be the following factors:

1. Blood lipid level is related to age and tends to increase with age.

2. When people reach this age, the life is relatively stable, the living standard is improved, the diet quality is exquisite, it is easy to eat too much.

3. Middle-aged and elderly people have significantly reduced physical activity, especially those young and middle-aged people who have exercised and then stopped, are more likely to develop obesity and hyperlipidemia.

4. The accumulation of many bad living habits in the youth will come to us in the middle and old age.

Prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia The principle of prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia: first is to control the diet, second is to eliminate the malignant factors, and finally consider the drug therapy.

Here the elimination of malignant factors to say a few words, and then talk in detail about dietary adjustment and lipid-lowering drug treatment of two problems.

The so-called elimination of aggravating factors is to actively and timely treat the systemic diseases causing hyperlipidemia.

Efforts should also be made to reduce other risk factors that contribute to atherosclerosis, such as bad habits, smoking and alcohol abuse.

Insist on good and appropriate exercise and physical activity.

Adjustment of diet

Dietary adjustment is a very important measure to prevent and treat hyperlipidemia. The essence of dietary adjustment is reasonable diet.

Its specific requirements are as follows:

1. According to the consumption level of the body intake of food, to achieve a balance of income and expenditure, the body does not get fat;

2. Eat a low-fat diet, limiting your daily fat intake to 30 percent of your total calories, or 25 or 20 percent if possible, and limiting your daily cholesterol intake to 300 milligrams or less.

3. The ratio of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids should be kept at least 1:1, and the smaller the ratio, the better, it can be 1:2.

Because saturated fatty acids raise cholesterol, unsaturated fatty acids lower cholesterol.

Animal fat mainly contains saturated fatty acids, vegetable fat mainly contains unsaturated fatty acids.

The fat of cold-water fish is said to be rich in unsaturated fatty acids.

Therefore, in recent years, it is recommended to eat more Marine fish such as mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna.

4. Low animal protein diet, because animal protein intake is proportional to the amount of blood cholesterol, plant protein is the opposite.

5. Low-glycemic diet, fructose and sucrose can increase triglycerides, especially for middle-aged and elderly people, obese people and people with high triglycerides.

6. Foods rich in cellulose and vitamins are good for lowering blood sugar and fat, because lignin, pectin and gum in vegetables and fresh fruits can be combined with bile acid to make it out of the body.

Lipid-lowering therapy

Lipid-lowering drugs may be considered when dietary therapy is insufficient to adjust elevated blood lipids.

The current lipid-lowering drugs are: niacin and its derivatives, lecithin.

Linoleic acid, fish oil, Antomin, gynostaphylla, alginate diester sodium, will reduce fat, Nuobalance, special adjust fat, and other manufacturers around there are many new products, varieties are extremely rich.

However, generally speaking, the effectiveness of antilipidemic drugs is slow, and the side effects can not be ignored.

The side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are few, can be treated by experienced TCM syndrome differentiation.

In addition, hyperlipidemia needs long-term treatment because the current medical science can not cure hyperlipidemia, so patients need to take medication for the rest of their lives, so the drugs claiming to cure this disease are not credible.

Hyperlipidemia has always been a hot spot in modern medical research, and the research on this aspect is becoming more and more in-depth. However, there is no question that taking lipid-lowering drugs can change blood clotting, and the popular belief that people with low cholesterol levels after taking lipid-lowering drugs are more likely to develop cancer has no scientific basis.

Lowering blood fat is not easy.

Patients must first understand what is hyperlipidemia.

Secondly, we should make our life scientific. Under the guidance of medical staff, we should eat, exercise and live regularly according to proportion. After maintaining for a period of time, we should measure blood lipid, so that the data can be more objective.

Then, to take medicine under the guidance of doctors in regular hospitals, scientific lifestyle to adhere to.

If this is maintained for a period of time, the blood lipid still cannot be lowered, it belongs to the metabolic disorder of the body itself, which can not be temporarily solved by the current medical science. Among the many lipid-lowering drugs, there are only two types that are most effective and used by people.

Lipid-lowering drug

One is statins, such as simvastatin, prevastatin and lovastatin. Statins inhibit cholesterol synthesis and are mainly used in patients with high total cholesterol and mixed hyperlipidemia.

The second is the beit class, gefilozzi, fenofibrate and so on. The Bate class is used for the main type of triacylglycerol elevation.

Statins can significantly reduce the serum low density lipoprotein concentration, at the same time can mildly reduce triglyceride and slightly increase the level of high density lipoprotein, the effect is certain.

This kind of lipid-lowering drug has been widely used in the international clinical trials on lipid-lowering.

Although hyperlipidemia does not affect longevity. However, experts point out that the biggest harm of high blood lipids is to lead to atherosclerosis and induce atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

The elderly after 60 years old are often complicated with hypertension, abnormal blood sugar, hyperuricemia, etc. If the combined lipid level is at a relatively high level, without active control, it will certainly affect the cardiovascular health.

Once hyperlipidemia is found, it is necessary to actively and timely reduce blood lipids according to the above methods. To reduce blood lipids, it is not possible to take lipid-lowering drugs according to the doctor's instructions, and do not increase or decrease the dosage by yourself.