What is the real cause of arterial calcification?
From correspondence with a reader: The doctor informed a good friend that she had calcified vessels - calcium plaques on the walls of the vessels. What it is? Can calcium supplements be the cause?
Most people who have calcifications on the walls of arteries or in organ tissues never used additional calcium in the form of dietary supplements or drugs. After learning about such findings, many try to exclude calcium-containing foods.
But this is a pointless and dangerous occupation, because there is enough calcium in different foods. And the only thing that can be achieved by such actions is a decrease in bone mineral density: calcium will decrease in the incoming food, and the need for it will remain the same. The body will begin to extract calcium from its own skeleton. And this leads to bone fragility, which is very scary.
What is the real cause of vascular calcification
Why does calcium end up where it shouldn't be?
Calcium, as one of the elements of the body's defense mechanism, constantly
patches up some damage, developed, as a rule, in the area of inflammation.This very inflammation may or may not be infectious, the so-called aseptic inflammation. And calcium closes this inflamed area, fencing off healthy tissues from the victims. Because the wall of blood vessels is also inflamed, which is why there is calcium in the future.
This often occurs against the background of systemic inflammation of adipose tissue, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other problems.
What to do? Make the correct diagnosis and treat the underlying disease.
Your Doctor Pavlova
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