October 23, 2010 Understanding Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
The vital organs of the human body are vulnerable to serious disease with obesity, a medical condition in which the body has abnormally high and unhealthy amount of body fat. The presence of heavy fat can alter some bodily and chemical processes and hormonal changes that can be detrimental.
The heart is among the vital organs that should be given an extra care. Unknown to some, but it is the most abused organ as the foods that people consume can have a huge impact to the heart. When a person is obese, it is certain that the body has high cholesterol level in the bloodstream, which can result to high blood pressure, and consequently, to atherosclerosis. These 2 conditions are serious enough; however, their dangers are not over as eventually, the person will have a stroke or a heart attack, both of which can be fatal. These events are dangerous to those people who don’t know how to lose weight fast.
Another unfortunate consequence of atherosclerosis, or the hardening and narrowing of the arteries, large and small, leading to constricted blood vessels, is aneurysm. An aneurysm is a thinning or dilation of the wall of an artery and other blood vessel. In time, the aneurysm bursts, causing an abrupt internal bleeding that ultimately end in shock, then death. About a third of individuals die of ruptured aneurysm.
There are several types of aneurysm including aortic, abdominal and thoracic, and intracranial, most of which occur below the kidney level and among individuals between 60 and 90 years old. Nevertheless, with obesity factored in, the ages become younger.
In obese individuals, the high cholesterol in the blood will cause to form a plague around the insides of the blood vessels. The plague is composed of fatty substances, white blood cells that may be traveling through the arteries and which try to absorb the cholesterol from the bloodstream, calcium, and cholesterol. When they form into a plague and stick to the arteries, the lining of the arteries will break up as it thins, granting access to the plague which will lurk and linger onto the walls of the arteries.
When this happens, the arteries which carry oxygenated blood throughout the body harden and narrow, blocking the blood flow. Such is the case of atherosclerosis. Now that the plague or cholesterol is inside the wall of the arteries, there is no stopping them from accumulation until it becomes thick and the wall becomes thin. Aneurysm now starts.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm is the aneurysm of the artery or arteries which carry and supply oxygenated blood from the heart to the abdomen and throughout the body parts. Aortic refers to the portion lower than the heart or chest. It is the most common form of aneurysm.
Poor diet such as high fat either saturated and Trans can cause the cholesterol buildup in the blood, particularly the LDL. Unlike the HDL, which is labeled as good cholesterol, the LDL does not expel out of the body. It rather stays behind. Although the body needs fat for many reasons related to survival, it is not absorbed by the body cells and tissues more than what they need. Thus, it remains in the bloodstream. People who are obese contain more body fats, and thus, high cholesterol in the blood.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm is deadly, yes, but it can be prevented when detected early.
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