The age of 40 is associated with a period of decline in health due to a decrease in resistance and ability to absorb nutrients. Let's find out the common diseases after the age of 40 to know how to prevent and treat them properly.
After the age of 40, his health began to decline and the symptoms of the disease became more and more obvious. Some studies have proven that our strength declines 10-20% every 10 years, thereby causing many dangerous diseases for health.
Heart
After the age of 40, we have a higher risk of heart disease
After the age of 40, we have a higher risk of heart disease due to the appearance of age signs such as frequent headaches and sleep disturbances. This makes blood pressure abnormal leading to cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is also associated with other diseases such as blood pressure, diabetes, causing people to often feel severe chest pain, pain or discomfort in one or both arms, back, neck, jaw or stomach, stuffy myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure due to fast or irregular heartbeat.
In addition, women after 40 years of age entering perimenopause and menopause reduce the hormonal hormones that make the heart health worse, leading to the situation that up to 42% of women develop heart disease during their age. 40.
Heart disease cannot be accurately diagnosed through symptoms alone, while men often have obvious symptoms such as chest pain, women have signs that are more difficult to identify. So when you turn 40, you should check your heart health periodically such as cholesterol, blood pressure, fasting blood sugar level.. to detect and treat heart disease promptly.
Osteoarthritis
Bones and joints are parts that are often under pressure of the body and quickly weaken after the age of 40
Joints are part of the body that is constantly under pressure, and this pressure will repeat throughout our lives. Therefore, when we enter middle age, our bones and joints begin to break down, causing us to often have joint pain, stiffness and turn into osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
According to a survey of 500 women and 170 men aged 40 years and over, the results confirm that about 40% feel joint pain when or when squatting, while in men only about 20% experience it. this symptom. Women who give birth a lot and after menopause, office men who sit a lot and have an inappropriate diet have a high risk of early osteoporosis.
Therefore, when the signs of osteoporosis joint pain appear, it is recommended to treat with a doctor, maintain a reasonable lifestyle, exercise and diet, regularly exercise the joints to limit the recurrence of the disease. .
Kidney stones
About a third of the population of our country has kidney stones , urinary tract stones or kidney stones, bladder stones but only half of these have symptoms. Kidney stones can cause many problems such as infections and blockages in the flow of urine, affecting your ability to perform daily activities and relationships. This is a urinary tract infection that is common in men between the ages of 20 and 40 and women between the ages of 25 and 40. The cause of the disease is due to an irregular diet leading to an excess of calcium or related to the climate and weather where you live, making the urine saturated and prone to stone formation in the kidney or bladder. . Severe kidney stones cause severe pain from the hips to the lower abdomen, the inner thighs and to the scrotum.
To avoid kidney stones after the age of 40, you should consult a doctor to have a suitable diet, limit eating too many calcium-containing foods as well as eating salty and high protein foods.
Diabetes
The signs of diabetes include slow healing of wounds due to interrupted blood circulation, feeling thirsty often, urinating more and more often, being hungry a lot, eating a lot but still losing weight. The prevalence of type 1 and 2 diabetes in Vietnam is very high, spending about 765 million USD for diabetes treatment and accounting for more than 50% in patients over 40 years old. Having diabetes makes the body's ability to fight infections worse, sudden high blood pressure makes this disease the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Therefore, when you see signs of diabetes, you should go for tests to detect early and treat promptly.
Blood pressure
Middle-aged high blood pressure is dubbed the "silent killer"
High blood pressure when the systolic blood pressure reading is 140 mmHg or higher or the diastolic blood pressure is below 90 mmHg, while the systolic blood pressure reading is below 90 mmHg or a decrease of 25 mmHg is diagnosed as low blood pressure. By the age of 40, the heart's pumping capacity and blood vessel resistance are more abnormal, causing transient symptoms such as headaches, shortness of breath, or nosebleeds.
High blood pressure in middle age is known as the "silent killer" when the symptoms of the disease often appear when the disease has reached a very serious stage. If blood pressure is not well controlled, it can cause heart failure and stroke and can take a patient's life in the blink of an eye.