Do you know the dangers of high blood lipids in young people?

High blood lipids are mostly a disease that occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, but a small number of young people may also suffer from this disease. High blood lipids are a systemic disease caused by high cholesterol in the body. High blood lipids are often also called hyperlipoproteinemia. So what are the dangers of high blood lipids in young people?

1. High blood lipids can lead to high blood pressure

After atherosclerosis forms in the human body, it will lead to myocardial dysfunction, angiotensin-converting enzyme will be activated in large quantities, causing blood vessel artery spasm, inducing the adrenal glands to secrete vasopressin, and causing high blood pressure. Other factors that affect high blood pressure include peripheral vascular resistance, arterial wall elasticity, and blood viscosity, and these three factors are directly related to hyperlipidemia. The vascular endothelium of a normal person is smooth and flowing. Increased blood lipids will gradually deposit under the vascular endothelium in the form of yellow atherosclerotic plaques. Over time, they will rupture, bleed, the lumen will become narrow, and blood flow resistance will increase, thereby increasing blood pressure. Increased blood lipids and the deposition of blood lipids in the arterial endothelium can cause vascular sclerosis, weaken the elasticity of the blood vessel wall, and increase blood pressure. When blood lipids increase, blood viscosity increases, which increases blood flow resistance and thus increases blood pressure. Hyperlipidemia can also reduce the sensitivity of antihypertensive drugs and increase the difficulty of antihypertensive treatment. Therefore, blood lipids should be lowered while treating hypertension. Once hypertension develops in the human body, the blood vessels will often be in spasm. The endothelium of the cerebral blood vessels is damaged after hardening, leading to rupture and hemorrhagic stroke. The cerebral blood vessels will stagnate in a state of embolic thrombosis, leading to cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism.

2. Mutual promotion of high blood lipids and high blood sugar

Many people with diabetes also have hyperlipidemia, so people usually call diabetes and hyperlipidemia sister diseases and believe that hyperlipidemia is a secondary disease of diabetes. According to statistics, about 40% of diabetic patients have lipid metabolism disorders. It is characterized by increased triglycerides and decreased high-density lipoprotein. The reason why diabetes causes high blood lipids is that when diabetic patients lack insulin, the activity of lipase in the body is reduced, so blood lipids are easily increased. On the other hand, diabetes itself is accompanied by disorders in fat, protein, water and electrolytes in addition to sugar metabolism disorders. Free fatty acids are often mobilized from fat depots, increasing the concentrations of triglycerides and free fatty acids in the blood. On the other hand, people with type 2 diabetes eat too much and exercise too little, which increases the synthesis of lipids in the body, which is also the reason for the increase in blood lipids. People who are obese and have high blood lipids have a relatively reduced number of insulin receptors, which leads to insulin resistance and easily induces diabetes. People with increased blood lipids are also prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications.

3. High blood lipids can lead to coronary heart disease

High blood lipids can harm coronary arteries and cause atherosclerosis. A large amount of lipid proteins are deposited and moved in the plasma, reducing blood flow rate. After becoming rancid through oxidation, they are deposited on the arterial endothelium and adhere to the blood vessel walls for a long time, damaging the arterial endothelium and causing vascular sclerosis. When the human body develops atherosclerosis due to long-term hyperlipidemia, the blood flow in the coronary arteries decreases, the blood vessel lumen becomes narrower, the amount of blood injected into the myocardium decreases, causing myocardial ischemia, leading to angina pectoris and coronary heart disease.