动脉粥样硬化几乎人人都会发生,只是发生有早有晚,程度有轻有重,部位有差异,发展有快慢。10岁儿童约有10％已有早期动脉粥样病变(呈现脂纹),中年以后多数人已有中期和晚期动脉粥样病变(斑块形成和轻度、中度动脉狭窄),在狭窄不超过管腔50％时一般无临床症状。病变既可继续发展,也可因及时有效的治疗而消退。老年人没有动脉粥样硬化病变的是极少数,并且病变多属晚期;动脉高度狭窄,斑块可能形成溃疡,还可并发血栓,造成血流阻断,有关器官发生缺血性坏死(如脑梗死)。动脉也可发生退化性病变,导致破裂出血(如脑出血)。那么,我们应该怎样对付动脉粥样硬化呢?请看本期健康话题—— 动脉粥样硬化的防治 Atherosclerosis happens to almost everybody except the early or late occurrence, the degree of lightness or severeness, the difference of parts and the speed of development. Approximately 10% of 10-year-olds have had early atherosclerosis (lipid streaks), and middle-aged and older people have had atherosclerotic lesions (plaque formation and mild to moderate arterial stenosis) Not more than 50% of the lumen generally no clinical symptoms. Lesions can continue to develop, but also because of timely and effective treatment and regression. Elderly people without atherosclerotic lesions is a very small number, and the lesions are advanced; artery height is narrow, the plaque may form ulcers, but also complicated by thrombosis, resulting in blood flow blocked, the occurrence of ischemic organ necrosis (such as brain Infarction). Artery can also degenerative lesions, resulting in rupture of bleeding (such as cerebral hemorrhage). So, how should we deal with atherosclerosis? Look at this issue of health - prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis