Cardiovascular disease is the cause of the death of residents in our country. Experts: Vascular health people live longer

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client August 7 (Reporter Wang Kaining Correspondent Xie Xuejiao) On August 6, the "2022 World Great Health Fair-Elderly Health Innovation Summit" hosted by Hubei Provincial Senior Medical Center and Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology As mentioned above, at present, cardiovascular disease is still the primary cause of the death of Chinese residents. More than 40 % of urban and rural residents died of cardiovascular disease. With the further grim of the aging situation in China, this proportion is still in the continuous rise. It is urgent to interfere with cardiovascular disease on the source.

"People with blood vessels can only live long. Maintaining vascular health need to intervene in atherosclerosis and blood vessel aging at the same time." Professor Zhang Cuntai, the sponsor of this summit, director of Hubei Province, and Director of Tongji Hospital Senior Medical Division. Reporting "Elderly Management of Elderly" pointed out that arteriosclerosis has caused changes in vascular structure and functional changes, which is the basis for the occurrence of multiple cardiovascular diseases. Control the arteriosclerosis, and delay or reverse the arteriosclerosis, to slow the aging of blood vessels.

The seventh national census data released in 2021 shows that the proportion of China's 60s and above population accounted for 18.7%of the total population, entering the stage of mild transition medium aging. According to calculations, by 2030, the population of aging over 60 years old is expected to increase to about 400 million, and China has really ushered in the "longevity era". Aging itself is not a disease, but it is an important reason for increasing the susceptibility to other diseases and significantly affecting the social health framework.

Participating experts explored the road of healthy aging from multiple angles such as blood vessel health, nutrition, cognition, immune regulation, and multiple drugs, and provided suggestions for the development of the elderly. "Everyone has the elderly, everyone will grow old, and paying attention to the elderly is to pay attention to the future." According to Zhang Cun Tai, the 2022 Hubei Province "Elderly Healthy Month" series jointly carried out by the Hubei Provincial Medical Center and the medical institution in the province The event will also be officially launched today, and will carry out the whole year's theme activities around the "Elderly Health Month", including free consultations into communities, popular science knowledge dissemination, science popularization contest, and health party. "Improving the sense of health of the elderly is to contribute to the health cause of the national aging in the long life era."

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