What is a disease of affluence?

Diseases of affluence are a type of disease in modern life, also known as modern civilization diseases. They are a series of diseases suffered by many of our friends in modern life due to their good material life. Some friends may think that this is not a serious disease, but in fact, if you do not pay attention to it, this disease is also very scary. Now, as many as 15,000 people die from diseases of affluence every day. This shows how scary diseases of affluence are. So, what are diseases of affluence?

Hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity and other common diseases in our lives are all diseases of affluence. We should now be able to understand the horror of diseases of affluence more intuitively. Below, let us learn about the specific symptoms of diseases of affluence. I hope everyone can pay more attention to them.

1. Hypertension

Not only can it cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also due to arteriosclerosis, the blood flow to the lower body is reduced, thus affecting the erectile function of the penis, which may cause or aggravate erectile dysfunction; many antihypertensive drugs themselves have side effects that affect erectile function, so you should pay attention to this when choosing antihypertensive drugs.

2. Coronary heart disease

It is closely related to erectile dysfunction. The patient's concerns and fears after the disease can lead to dysfunction of the cerebral cortex, which in turn affects sexual function. Hyperlipidemia can cause lipid deposition in the arterial endothelium and atherosclerosis, which is also one of the factors leading to erectile dysfunction.

3. Diabetes

It causes vascular and neuropathy and is one of the diseases most closely related to erectile dysfunction. Among adult male diabetic patients, 23% to 75% will have problems with inability to achieve or sustain an erection.

4. Obesity

The excessive weight of obese people causes inconvenience in sexual life, causes mental burden, and may cause psychological problems. The occurrence and development of "diseases of affluence" are closely related to the bad living habits of urbanites. Smoking, alcoholism, tense interpersonal relationships, lack of physical exercise, unreasonable dietary structure, and unfavorable environmental and genetic factors are all the culprits that induce "diseases of affluence".

5. Hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia refers to abnormal and elevated levels of blood lipids in the human body.

It includes: (1) hypercholesterolemia (TC) TC>5.7mmol/L;

(2) Hypertriglyceridemia (TG): TG>1.7mmol/L;

(3) Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) LDL>3.1mmol/L or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) HDL<0.8mmol/L.

After reading the above detailed introduction about diseases of affluence, I believe everyone should now have some understanding of this disease. I hope that as modern life improves, everyone can pay more attention to our physical health, exercise more, and stay away from sub-health. As life gets better, we also need to have a good body to enjoy life better.