“What are the main causes of an arterial blockage?”
I recently read an article that said we all have blockages in our heart, only the intensity keeps changing. What are the primary causes of arterial blockages? Can they be prevented?
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Hardening of arteries is due to fat building up in the blood vessels. Diet, exercise, no smoking, and controlling all risk factors are essential.
All we know there are risk factors associated with arteriosclerosis disease (narrowing and blockages of the arteries). As life expectancy increases, we get more exposed to those risk factors. High cholesterol and bad fat, smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, sedentary life, and genetics all play a role in developing atherosclerotic disease. Modification in our diet, lifestyle, and compliance with treatment will help tremendously in avoiding or slowing the process of atherosclerosis. Once a person becomes symptomatic there are multiple alternative therapies, however the best one is prevention.
DM, high cholesterol, smoking and kidney disease.
Healthy life styles may prevent Vascular problem.
Healthy life styles may prevent Vascular problem.
The article you read is not correct. Hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis, PAD, is a disease process. One of the earliest places that it can occur is in the arteries of the heart. The most common cause for hardening of the arteries is smoking and equally that of diabetes. Having an unhealthy high cholesterol diet and high cholesterol is a third cause but it is distant to that of smoking and diabetes. There are some people who are genetically prone to this disease but they are a minority.
Some people are predisposed to arterial problems which are complicated by diabetes high cholesterol smoking and genetic factors exercise no smoking diet low in fat can help avoid problems
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Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is the main cause. A significant percentage of adults in the US have this, but not everyone. Prevention comes from controlling the things that cause it, namely smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes.
Atherosclerosis plaques and intra plaque hematoma
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Smoking, smoking, smoking....genetics and other risk factors such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Prevention involves elimination/avoidance of risk factors...except genetics of course.
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Hypertension, smoking, diabetes, kidney disease, hypercholesterolemia, inflammation, genetics. It's hard to answer the second part of your question, but if looked at it in-depth, you are right; with all the stress we live with and the kind of food we eat, almost everyone has some degree of atherosclerosis developing.
All arteries get diseased. Cholesterol is the causative agent. How quickly your arteries get blocked depends upon a number of factors. Inherited hypercholesterolemia is a significant cause. Diet is secondary. Managing cholesterol is important, but anti hypercholesterol drugs have side effects in some patients. Speak to your PCP about your cholesterol. Exercise regularly, and read about a vegan diet. This is the way to control the risk of significant arterial blockages.
