Excessive consumption of coffee "contributes" to heart attack

Recently, there are more retweets in moments: the sudden death of a 26-year-old female anesthesiologist after the night shift, the sudden death of a 43-year-old emergency doctor after working for 48 hours, and the sudden death of a 51-year-old spinal surgeon after a long period of overwork. These frequent sudden deaths have attracted a great deal of public attention. Will you be getting closer and closer to being "hit" when you are under pressure and overwork? Recently, the 13th seminar on cardiac revascularization and diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndrome, sponsored by the Chinese University Hospital affiliated to Southeast University and the Heart Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, was held in Nanjing. Experts at the meeting called for everyone to create a "comfortable" working and living environment for the heart.

Case study

The young man had a sudden heart attack on the overtime train.

According to Professor Ma Genshan, director of the Department of Cardiology of the Chinese University Hospital affiliated to Southeast University, he once received a 30-year-old patient from the railway station. "at that time, we received a call from the railway station and rushed to the railway station to treat this myocardial infarction patient, staging a real-life version of the speed of life and death." Professor Ma said. Later, I learned that this patient had stayed up three or four nights in order to catch up with the enterprise. In those days, he was entrenched at his desk day and night. He wanted to have a short rest on the train, but as a result, he had a heart attack and almost died of a guest in another place. Fortunately, timely rescue, all the way to the green channel, through cardiac intervention surgery to save a life.

Professor Ma pointed out that working under continuous high pressure, the body showed danger signals but did not get attention, sedentary and other reasons, causing the young man to have a sudden heart attack at a young age.

Inducement

Smokers are getting younger in cardiovascular disease.

"there are many patients who think they are still young and make their bodies extremely tired. It has become their norm to stay up late and work overtime. The fast pace of life in the workplace, coupled with unhealthy lifestyles, mainly include overeating, smoking and drinking, extreme lack of exercise, lack of sleep, poor mood, and so on, which can easily lead to heart disease. " Professor Liu Naifeng, secretary of the party committee of the Chinese University Hospital and a famous cardiovascular expert, said.

Professor Liu particularly pointed out that the harm of smoking to the human body is not only respiratory system, but also cause some damage to cardiovascular system. The longer the history of smoking, the greater the amount of smoking, the greater the harm to cardiac function, and secondhand smoke will also cause some cardiovascular damage. The younger age of smokers has also become an important reason for the rejuvenation of cardiovascular disease.

Excessive consumption of coffee "accelerates" heart attack

Professor Ma Genshan said that too busy, high-pressure and intense work will constantly stimulate people's sympathetic nerves. If you are always in a state of high tension and the sympathetic nervous system is too excited for a long time, it will lead to excessive burden on the heart, increased heart rate, and even arrhythmias. In the long run, if it is not adjusted in time, the heart will be damaged. The sudden death of some patients with sudden heart disease is due to staying up late, emotional excitement, tension, leading to neurological dysfunction, coronary artery spasm, sudden heart ischemia and sudden death.

Professor Ma Genshan said that some young people stay up late and work overtime and drink too much coffee in order to refresh themselves, but they are very sensitive to coffee. Drinking only one cup of coffee will affect their sleep at night, which stimulates the sympathetic nerve, coupled with excessive fatigue, which also contributes to heart disease. Therefore, he recommends drinking coffee in moderation that varies from person to person.

Psychological problems will "put pressure" on the heart

Sun Jingping, a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who attended the seminar, said that if people in their 50s do not pay attention to exercise, their heart itself is going downhill and have a high incidence of hypertension; in addition, long-term tension increases the excitability of the human sympathetic nerve, stimulating the heart rate, peripheral vasoconstriction, rising blood pressure, and damaging blood vessels and heart. High blood pressure and high pressure environment eventually lead to heart disease, and the risk of heart disease in this group is increasing day by day. Professor Sun Jingping, who is over eighty years old, told reporters from his own experience that blood pressure should be strictly controlled. Need to emphasize that hypertension is a chronic disease, should be lifelong medication, and according to their own blood pressure reasonable adjustment of medication.

In fact, in addition to the well-known metabolic factors such as high blood pressure and hyperglycemia, psychological factors are also important factors leading to heart disease. "when people are depressed and anxious, it may affect sleep, which in turn has a certain impact on the cardiovascular system." Professor Liu Naifeng believes that if grievances are not vented in time, it will lead to physical tension, which in turn leads to a rise in blood pressure, which will eventually cause harm to the cardiovascular system.

New measures

Popularize first aid skills and set up "defibrillators" in public places

"with just a few simple presses, a sudden cardiac death patient can be brought back to life. However, the vast majority of people do not understand the knowledge of first aid such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation and are at a loss in the face of emergencies. " Introduced by Professor Liu Naifeng. However, the reporter learned from the Jiangsu Health and Family Planning Commission that the Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and the Provincial Red Cross will fully implement the national self-help and mutual rescue literacy improvement project from 2016 to 2020. Jiangsu provincial government has listed "more than 1 million new emergency rescue training" as one of the ten practical things to ensure and improve people's livelihood for four consecutive years, and the project is planned to be by 2020. We will strive to achieve the target of 15% of the total population trained in emergency rescue. Since 2006, the province has carried out emergency rescue training for a total of 9.4117 million people, accounting for 11.77% of the province's total population, ranking first in the country.

Many foreign countries have installed automatic external defibrillators in airports, shopping malls, schools and other places, so that people can be rescued in time in the event of sudden death. The reporter also learned from the Emergency Office of the Health and Family Planning Commission that the Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and the Provincial Red Cross plan to jointly launch automatic external defibrillators in public places, set up defibrillators in the halls of government centers in provinces and 13 prefectures and cities, and recruit volunteers. Carry out training on first aid knowledge such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator skills. In addition, it is planned to cooperate with Nanjing Lukou International Airport to install defibrillators at the airport and train airport staff on first aid knowledge such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use skills.

Suggestion

Take the initiative to relieve stress and check regularly

Experts at the meeting suggested that for this group of people with heart disease caused by stress, decompression may be the secret to heart protection. Do not let work completely replace life, do not let stress in the office contagion, layers of "disease". It is recommended that moderate relaxation activities be carried out for a period of time. For "high-pressure" people, when individuals can not deal with negative emotions, they should turn to a psychiatrist for help.

In addition, it is recommended to have an ECG examination once a year for people in their 40s. It is suggested that in addition to ECG examination, people with a family history of heart disease and people with palpitations and other problems should also have echocardiography, coronary artery CT examination or coronary angiography examination. Echocardiography can detect diseases with abnormal cardiac structure, while coronary artery CT or coronary angiography can detect cardiovascular diseases, early detection and early treatment.

According to experts, after more than a decade of development, most of coronary heart disease can be solved by minimally invasive interventional therapy, and new technologies such as left atrial appendage occlusion and percutaneous aortic valve replacement continue to benefit patients.