The elderly should pay attention to the ankle the upper arm's index and check and can find apoplexy of heart stem in early days

The elderly should pay attention to the ankle the upper arm's index and check and can find apoplexy of heart stem in early days

Germany one latest research reveal, suffer from the intersection of lower extremities and arteriosclerosis stop up old person of disease, will increase to suffer from myocardial infarction, apoplexy even risk dying, and the easy ankle the upper arm's index is checked, can help to find this disease in time, make the patient get the treatment as soon as possible.
German the intersection of wave and the intersection of swan and the intersection of Ruhr and university researcher publish communique, say through until the elderly's 5 - year long follow-up investigation is found over the 6880 and a half person of they November 10, 20.9% of the people suffer from arteriosclerosis of lower extremities and stop up disease in these old men, and only 8.7% of the patients can feel relevant symptom. Further study and still discover, whether lower extremities arteriosclerosis has symptom to stop up a disease patient, day future trouble its myocardial infarction, apoplexy even risk that die will.
Researchers emphasize, for the elderly, the blood vessel of lower extremities is checked, especially the ankle the upper arm's index is checked and should be listed in the regular physical examination, thus find early potential lower extremities arteriosclerosis stops up disease.
The ankle the upper arm's index refers to the ratio of people's ankle arterial pressure to the upper arm's arterial pressure of arm. It is introduced, the ankle the upper arm has low in 0.9 index, often indicates the lower extremities artery is hard to melt. And this kind of sclerosis phenomenon will often appear on the body other positions at the same time, blood vessel and heart coronary artery substantially as for the blood supply of braining, and often cause apoplexy or myocardial infarction.

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