Elderly people need to guard against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in winter

Winter is the season when cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are prone to occur. A reporter learned from a hospital in Jiangmen that with the recent cold weather, the outpatient department and wards of the hospital have seen a significant increase in patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Tan Wenfeng, director of the Cardiology Department of the hospital, told reporters that Jiangmen is still a city with a relatively large number of elderly people. When the weather turns cold, attention should be paid to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly.

One third more patients in winter than usual

Why are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases related to seasons? Tan Wenfeng explained that as the weather gets colder, blood vessels contract, and intense contraction can cause an increase in blood pressure. Temperature can also increase blood viscosity. In addition, winter diets tend to be greasy as people store energy for the winter, making the entire blood system more viscous. Therefore, the incidence of stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure is relatively high.

"In winter, there are one-third more patients than usual," Tan Wenfeng said that since October, the number of patients admitted to the cardiovascular department has remained high. "Some elderly people are even less willing to go out in winter, let alone go to the hospital for check-ups." He said that in winter, most elderly people who can endure will choose to endure. In the first two days after the arrival of cold air, patients may already start to experience symptoms such as shortness of breath and feeling cold, but most of them are unwilling to seek medical treatment. "Therefore, on the first day of the temperature drop, we usually don't see many patients because they are in the endurance phase. However, it gets very busy on the evening of the second day onwards." Tan Wenfeng indicated that generally, after enduring for two days, patients find it difficult to lie flat while sleeping and are then sent to the hospital for treatment. Yisheng.com