? However, this is far from the truth.
20 12 on may 22nd, CCTV's news 1+ 1 reported the current situation of chronic diseases among the elderly in China:
? 1. The number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases in China is 260 million, accounting for more than 70% of the total elderly population. Among them, there are as many as 200 million patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, more than 200 million patients with hypertension, 50 million patients with hypercholesterolemia, and diabetic patients11390,000. One in every 10 adult is diagnosed.
2. The number of deaths due to chronic diseases accounts for 85% of the total deaths every year. "Cerebrovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and heart disease" rank among the top four causes of death among urban and rural residents in China, and 45% of patients with chronic diseases die before the age of 70.
3. The medical expenses for chronic diseases in China account for 70% of the total expenses.
? The high disability rate and high mortality rate caused by chronic diseases have also become an important reason for many families of patients with chronic diseases to return to poverty!
? If you lack sensitivity and imagination to these data, then let's take a look at the most accurate summary and description of chronic diseases in medicine, which may make your understanding of chronic diseases more profound!
The so-called chronic disease refers to a "stubborn and systematic" disease caused by long-term bad living and eating habits, bad environment and natural wear and tear of genetic factors, as well as "systemic damage" caused by internal dysfunction and aging of the human body.
? In this summary, we can know that chronic disease is a kind of "refractory" disease at first, and at the same time it is a kind of "systemic injury". Only these two characteristics can prove its malignant degree. If we look at several specific chronic diseases, I am afraid we will have a deeper and more specific understanding of the consequences of chronic diseases. "Coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, hypertension, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer" and so on, these are common, powerful disabling and fatal chronic diseases. Their mortality rate ranks first and they are the number one killer of human health.
? The occurrence of a chronic disease is not a simple process, it is a process in which the pathogenic factors gradually become stronger in the body and finally "overcome" the human body's own disease resistance. Its final manifestation is the disorder of multi-system function, which is concentrated on one or several organs, resulting in unique diseases and injuries. It's like a battle to attack and defend the city. The siege party kept attacking, and the guarding city tried its best to mobilize the whole city to resist. When the city was captured, the city was devastated, water conservancy, electricity, energy and food were exhausted, and transportation facilities were all paralyzed, leaving a ruin. This is an image metaphor of the occurrence of chronic diseases.
However, the harm of chronic diseases is far more hidden and deceptive than urban offensive and defensive warfare. It is more like a "sneak attack war", which can make life and health "commit" unconsciously.
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? To sum up, the manifestations of chronic diseases have the following characteristics:
"One slow": it means the symptoms are slow. Accurately speaking, the "external manifestations of various symptoms" brought by chronic diseases are much later than the "actual internal injuries". Take coronary heart disease as an example. When atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries are continuously formed and increased, and some blood vessels are blocked, patients have no abnormal feeling. Only when the blood vessel blockage exceeds 70%, the patient will have symptoms of myocardial insufficiency such as palpitation, chest tightness, shortness of breath and chest pain. At this time, the lipid plaques on these blood vessel walls have hardened and are difficult to remove. Most likely: 1. Until people die, they are "long" on the inner wall of blood vessels. In medicine, the process that a disease can develop secretly without obvious symptoms is called "asymptomatic pathological state". In this asymptomatic pathological state, the aggravation process of the disease itself is very concealed and deceptive, so it often causes greater harm to patients with chronic diseases.
"Two quick": mainly refers to two aspects: quick disability and quick death. First of all, talk about disability. Pathological changes of chronic diseases have to go through a long accumulation process. During the accumulation of asymptomatic symptoms, due to its strong concealment, there is no patient's consciousness and vigilance, and no preventive and therapeutic measures can be taken. As a result, the pathogenic factors drive straight people, without any resistance, and destroy tissues and organs at will. When patients have bad emotions and symptoms, in fact, the diseased organs have been seriously damaged, and may even form irreversible permanent damage. For example, more than 80% patients with cerebral thrombosis have no obvious symptoms before hemiplegia, and usually come on in their sleep, leaving various lifelong sequelae after the onset.
The second "fast" of chronic diseases is to die quickly. The long-term asymptomatic damage targets of many chronic diseases are heart, brain, liver, kidney, lung and other important organs. Diseases of these important organs can directly lead to systemic functional damage, so the incidence of death is extremely high. For example, myocardial infarction is easy to cause cardiac arrest and sudden death, and the mortality rate of cerebral hemorrhage is also extremely high, especially brain stem hemorrhage, which can quickly form cerebral hernia and coma. Some cancers take only a few months from discovery to death.
? From the above analysis, we can easily see that the harm of chronic diseases is by no means "slow" or "light", but its critical consequences are unbearable for patients and families.
? Economic development and scientific and technological progress have brought us a more convenient and fast modern life. However, due to the rapid development of cities and towns, people's living environment is deteriorating day by day. Air pollution, excessive toxic substances in drinking water, volatilization of toxic substances in indoor decoration, chemical additives in food, excessive use of western medicine, smoking, alcoholism, increased psychological pressure, unhealthy lifestyle and other factors have made chronic diseases show a high prevalence trend. Nowadays, chronic diseases are characterized by urbanization, spectroscopy and diversification.
? Prevention and control of chronic diseases has reached the most critical moment!
? How to quickly cope with the current high outbreak and epidemic of chronic diseases and reduce
All kinds of high-level damage caused by chronic diseases have significantly improved the health level of the people and become a major livelihood issue that has a bearing on the overall situation!