What are the dangers of high triglycerides?

High triglycerides are extremely harmful to the body and can easily lead to some serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, etc. It is also one of the important factors causing hypertension and diabetes, and one of the important causes of liver disease. It can be seen that high triglycerides are very harmful to health.

What are the dangers of high triglycerides?

High triglycerides can cause various diseases such as coronary heart disease, and severe chylomicronemia can lead to acute pancreatitis, which is another fatal disease. In addition, hyperlipidemia is also an important risk factor for hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, and diabetes. Hyperlipidemia can also lead to fatty liver, cirrhosis, cholelithiasis, pancreatitis, retinal hemorrhage, blindness, peripheral vascular disease, claudication, and hyperuricemia. Some patients with primary and familial hyperlipidemia may also develop tendon-like, nodular, palmar and periorbital xanthomas, and juvenile corneal arcus.

What causes high triglycerides?

1. Improper diet

Improper diet, excessive eating, or excessive consumption of fatty, sweet and greasy foods can cause high blood lipids. Too much fat enters the body with food and is not distributed or converted in time, so it remains in the blood, increasing blood lipids. Long-term improper diet or excessive drinking will damage the spleen and stomach, causing the diet to not be normalized and unable to be transformed into essence to nourish the whole body. Instead, it will become fat and mix into the blood, causing high blood lipids. The former is a real syndrome, while the latter is a combination of real and virtual syndrome. This is the difference between the two.

2. Prefer quietness and less movement

Being sleepy and inactive; or being restricted by work, sitting at a desk all day, sitting more and walking less, which will cause the body's Qi to flow unobstructed, and Qi stagnation will result in poor distribution of body fluids. The fat cannot be converted and utilized in time, resulting in more production and less use, which accumulates in the body and soaks into the blood, thus increasing blood lipids.

3. Worrying about things can hurt your spleen

The spleen fails to function properly, or anger and depression damage the liver, the liver fails to function properly, the qi flow is not smooth, the transportation and distribution of fats are abnormal, and blood lipids rise.

4. Physical endowment

If the parents are obese, the child will have excess fat since childhood, and after adulthood, the body will become even plumper, but the Yang Qi is often insufficient, the metabolism of body fluids and fats is slow, and there is too much proteoglycans in the blood. Or the body is deficient in yin and hyperactivity of yang, fat is converted into fat, dissolved into the blood, and blood lipids increase.

What are the symptoms of high triglycerides?

Mild hyperlipidemia usually does not cause any discomfort, but the absence of symptoms does not mean that the blood lipids are not high. Regular blood lipid checks are essential.

The general symptoms of hyperlipidemia are mostly: dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, forgetfulness, chest tightness and palpitations, and may be confused with other diseases. Some patients have high blood lipids but no symptoms, and high blood lipids are often discovered during physical examinations. In addition, high blood lipids are often accompanied by symptoms of overweight and obesity.

When high blood lipids are severe, symptoms such as dizziness, headache, chest tightness, shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain, fatigue, crooked mouth, inability to speak, and limb numbness will appear, which will eventually lead to serious diseases such as coronary heart disease and cerebral stroke, and the corresponding symptoms will appear.