What can you eat to reduce the risk of heart disease in middle-aged?

Spinach cannot explain Popeye’s "superhuman power", but spinach and other iron-rich foods may have other effects in real life: reducing the risk of heart disease and premature death in middle age

The "Reference Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents" pointed out that iron, as a nutrient involved in the transport of oxygen in the body and the process of organizing respiration, can maintain normal hematopoietic function and play an important role in the body

The adverse effects of iron deficiency on cardiovascular disease

Previous studies on iron deficiency and cardiovascular health have mostly focused on how iron deficiency affects patients with heart disease, rather than how it affects people who do not have heart disease

Recently, a new study published by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) shows that people with iron deficiency are more than 20% more likely to suffer from heart disease, which can also lead to the possibility of death from other cardiovascular diseases

The researchers followed 12,164 middle-aged people without heart disease for more than 10 years to understand the relationship between iron deficiency and the risk of heart disease

At the beginning of the study, the average age of the participants was 59 years old, and almost two-thirds of them had iron deficiency.

Researchers estimate that if participants do not have iron deficiency in the initial period, they may be able to avoid 5.

What can you eat to prevent cardiovascular disease?

It should be noted that the results of this study only show a correlation, and cannot confirm that iron deficiency will definitely lead to the above results

Iron deficiency is quite common in middle-aged people.

(1) The iron is absolutely reduced, that is, the body's iron reserves are low;

(2) The function is reduced, and the function of phagocytes and reticuloendothelial cells to release iron is reduced, resulting in relatively insufficient iron

People with iron deficiency are more susceptible to heart disease and have a higher risk of death in the next ten years

(1) Dietary recommendations related to iron supplementation: appropriately increase the intake of iron-rich foods such as red meat, animal liver, duck blood, fish, etc.

(2) Recommendations for overall diet and life>

Vegetable protein: Red meat can significantly increase iron content, but vegetable protein can really greatly reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases

Intake of flavonoids: Regular intake of foods rich in flavonoids, such as apples, oranges, blueberries, broccoli, and tea, is less likely to die from cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease

Diversified diet and life>

If you are diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia, you should actively search for the cause and add iron on the basis of removing the cause

Non-invasive examinations such as urea breath test or anti-Helicobacter pylori antibodies for gastrointestinal related examinations;

Women with vaginal bleeding should undergo a gynecological examination;

C-reactive protein is associated with inflammatory/tumor diseases in the elderly;

In addition, a variety of factors including clonal hematopoiesis should be excluded; patients suspected of refractory iron deficiency anemia should undergo TMPRSS6 gene sequencing
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