Heart disease is a terrible disease. Because the heart plays an important role in the human body, it is everyone's duty to pay attention to the health of the heart. However, the detection of heart disease often needs to be carried out in large hospitals, and it is inevitable that it will be more troublesome to detect it through complex and precise instruments. So, how to test your heart health in life, so as to find the disease in time?

Walk for six minutes and test your heart health.

As we know, the function of the heart is mainly to discharge the circulating blood to the arterial system through the strong contraction of the myocardium, so that the blood can spread all over the capillaries of various organs and tissues of the whole body and supply oxygen and nutrients necessary for the activities of the body.

Whether a person has cardiac insufficiency can be judged according to the relationship between symptoms such as shortness of breath and fatigue and daily physical activity.

The cardiac function is divided into four grades: 1 grade: the cardiac function is basically normal, and patients have few symptoms of shortness of breath and fatigue in daily activities; Grade 2: shortness of breath, fatigue in daily activities; Grade 3: Even when the patient's daily activity is below, such as walking slowly, changing clothes and washing, he feels weak, having difficulty breathing, fatigue and lethargy; Grade 4: Patients will feel uncomfortable even if they rest quietly, and often have to stay in bed.

Heart failure can be diagnosed by heart function grades 2, 3 and 4, which are called heart failure 1, 2 and 3 respectively. However, the judgment of this kind of heart failure is too simple and rough, which is easily influenced by subjective factors of patients and lacks quantitative standards for objective evaluation. However, instrument measurement, such as ultrasonic detection of left ventricular ejection fraction, is expensive and inconvenient. In view of this, we introduce the six-minute walking test, so that patients can test their heart function anytime and anywhere.

The six-minute walking test is an exercise test, which reflects the functional state of the heart by testing the exercise endurance of patients. The method is simple and easy: draw a straight line distance of 30.5 meters (100 feet) on the flat ground, and put a chair at each end as a sign. The patient walks back and forth in the meantime, and the pace is determined by the patient according to his own physique. The monitored person will report the time every 2 minutes to record the discomfort such as shortness of breath and chest pain that the patient may have. If the patient is physically weak, he can take a break or suspend the experiment. After 6 minutes, the experiment ended, and the monitoring personnel counted the walking distance of the patients and evaluated the results.

Experts who conducted this experiment earlier in the United States divided the walking distance of patients into four grades: 1 grade is less than 300m, grade 2 is 300-374.9m, grade 3 is 375-449.5m, and grade 4 is over 450m. The lower the grade, the worse the heart function. It can be said that the heart function is close to or has reached normal if it reaches grade 3 or 4.

I am over 60 years old and have no cardiovascular disease. I can walk 490 meters in six minutes. Therefore, the degree of cardiac function damage is not serious in patients who can reach grade 3 or above.

The prediction results show that the distance of 1 is three times higher than that of 4. Re-hospitalization within 8 months 10 times higher. It can be seen that this test is also valuable for predicting the risk and consequences of patients' illness. In addition, the test can also compare the effects of patients before and after treatment and the advantages and disadvantages of treatment methods. The data provided by the instrument are also in good agreement with the cardiac function data measured by the instrument. Therefore, scholars believe that this test method is simple, safe and not limited by objective conditions.

Patients who are interested in testing can measure their pace first. With a watch, whether indoors or outdoors, you can calculate your walking distance after walking for 6 minutes, and then refer to the above walking distance level to roughly evaluate your heart function. Of course, for patients with poor heart function, especially elderly patients, you should ask a doctor for guidance during the initial test. If you have chest pain, shortness of breath or weakness, you should not insist reluctantly, so as not to lead to aggravation of heart failure or other complications.

Heart disease is a disease that everyone must pay attention to. Many young people think: I am young and healthy now, and I don't need to prevent heart disease. This is a very serious misunderstanding.

Heart disease is not a geriatric disease, and young people also need prevention. Many elderly people with heart disease lack understanding of their early symptoms, while some young people pay little attention to chest tightness, palpitation and other symptoms, and often think it has nothing to do with it. It is these thoughts that delay the best treatment time.

Symptoms that must be paid attention to in preventing heart disease

In addition to familiar symptoms such as palpitation and precordial pain, heart disease often has some superficial symptoms. Pay attention to these premonitory symptoms, and you can find them early and treat them early.

breathe

When doing some slight activities, or in a quiet state, shortness of breath occurs, but it is not accompanied by cough and expectoration. This situation is likely to be a manifestation of left ventricular dysfunction.

situation

If you are pale, purple and indifferent, this is a dying face in the late stage of heart disease. If the face is dark red, it is a feature of rheumatic heart disease and mitral stenosis. If it is pale, it may be a sign of mitral insufficiency.

nose

If the nose is stiff, it means that there is too much fat accumulation in the heart. If the tip of the nose is swollen, it means that the heart fat may also be swollen, or the heart disease is expanding. Besides, a red nose usually indicates a heart disease.

skin

The skin of patients with chronic heart failure and advanced pulmonary heart disease can be dark brown or deep purple. The skin mucosa and limbs are blue and purple, indicating that the heart is hypoxic.

ear

Patients with heart disease all have tinnitus in different degrees in the early stage. If your earlobe has coherent wrinkles, it is probably caused by coronary atherosclerosis.

neck

If there is a superficial tendon protruding from the clavicle to the earlobe with the thickness of the little finger, it is likely that the right heart is not functioning properly.

shoulder

The weather is fine, but there are intermittent pains in the left shoulder and the inside of the left arm, which may be coronary heart disease.

Hands and feet.

Fingertips or toes are obviously thick, and the nail surface is raised like a drumstick, which is common in patients with chronic pulmonary heart disease or congenital cyanotic heart disease.

lower limbs

Edema of lower limbs in middle-aged and elderly people is often the manifestation of venous blood return obstruction caused by cardiac insufficiency. If you often have palpitations and asthma, you can only relieve it by squatting, which is a unique manifestation of cyanotic heart disease.