There are factors that increase the risk of heart disease like heart attack immensely.
If several people meet, doctors speak of the metabolic syndrome.
Have you heard of the "deadly quartet"?
This is colloquially used to describe a number of health-endangering risk factors.
Doctors speak of metabolic syndrome.
In patients, four risk factors come together that damage blood vessels and
immensely increase
the
likelihood of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks
resulting in
death
.
According to
the portal
internists on the Internet
,
these include
:
very overweight (obesity) with a lot of belly fat *
high blood pressure
increased blood sugar level (impaired sugar metabolism in the form of insulin insensitivity or resistance)
disturbed lipid metabolism
In addition, those affected often experience elevated uric acid, low-grade inflammation, increased blood clotting and endothelial dysfunction, it said.
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Those who exercise regularly prevent the metabolic syndrome immensely.
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Wealthiness Disease Metabolic Syndrome: The Causes
Little exercise and unbalanced overeating are considered to be the main causes of metabolic syndrome.
This is where diseases of affluence come together that are particularly widespread in industrialized nations.
According to
internists on the Internet
, around 30-35 percent of the population in Germany suffer from a metabolic syndrome
, and the number is rising and the number of unreported cases is unknown.
What is particularly worrying is that it is no longer only older people over the age of 60 who are affected, but also more and more children and young people.
Prevention through sport, therapy through lifestyle changes
The good news: It is mostly simple changes in lifestyle that bring high blood pressure, obesity, excessively high blood sugar levels and a disturbed lipid metabolism back into balance.
This primarily includes a change in diet and regular exercise
. When it comes to nutrition, patients should especially ensure that they eat regularly, consume a maximum of three meals a day and avoid sugary drinks and industrial sugar in general. The basis of the diet should consist of vegetables prepared with high-quality oils such as nut or linseed oil, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk continues.
Depending on how far the metabolic syndrome has progressed, drug therapy may also be necessary.
Your attending physician is the right contact
for the diagnosis and therapy of the metabolic syndrome.
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Read more
: "Silent killer": Researchers discover new early warning signal for heart disease.
More sources
: https://www.internisten-im-netz.de/krankheiten/metabolisches-syndrom/
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