Behind the sudden death of the 61-year-old "Dancing King", many people have his problems, but they are easily overlooked

Huazi saw a piece of news that Beijing Square "Dancing King" Su Ke died of sudden cardiac death after his last dance. This caused many dancing friends and fans to mourn for days. After reading the whole news carefully, Huazi discovered the health problems of the "Dancing King", and these problems are common to many people, but are easily overlooked.

Su Ke, 61, had a sudden cerebral infarction in March, was diagnosed with palpitations and atrial fibrillation in May, and died suddenly on November 8. The key disease was atrial fibrillation.

1. Antihypertensive drugs that were discontinued There is a paragraph in the news that puzzled Huazi. It said that Su Ke was diagnosed with high blood pressure in 2011. He said it was "family-inherited high blood pressure". After taking medicine for more than a year, the doctor thought that the condition was well controlled and no longer needed to take medicine. He stopped taking antihypertensive drugs as prescribed by the doctor.

This passage contains a huge misunderstanding about hypertension, because hypertension is not a hereditary disease, it just has a genetic tendency. If you can maintain a healthy eating habit and lifestyle, you can avoid the occurrence of hypertension to a large extent.

Although Su Ke is known as the "Dancing King", his actual life is very difficult. He has no pension or medical insurance and relies on the tuition fees from teaching dance to maintain his basic life. This kind of life will produce huge survival pressure, and negative emotions such as anxiety and tension are important factors that induce high blood pressure.

What really puzzled Huazi was that, with the current medical level, essential hypertension could not be cured, and blood pressure could only be controlled by taking medication regularly, and medication could not be easily stopped. It was unclear why the "doctor" asked Su Ke to stop taking medication. This "medical order" to stop taking medication was likely to cause blood pressure to rise again, which was the "foreshadowing" of atrial fibrillation, cerebral infarction, and sudden death.

2. Atrial fibrillation can lead to cerebral infarction and sudden death. Continuous high blood pressure can cause left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial dilation, which can lead to the left atrium not contracting normally and causing high-frequency fibrillation. In the state of atrial fibrillation, the atrium loses its function of pumping blood, the blood flow rate slows down, turbulence is prone to occur in the atrial appendage, coagulation occurs, and blood clots are formed on the atrial wall.

Under the flushing of blood, blood clots may break off and form emboli, which can easily enter the cerebral arteries and block smaller blood vessels, causing cerebral infarction. However, many people with atrial fibrillation cannot sense it themselves, and can only be diagnosed when they do an electrocardiogram. However, if the interval between atrial fibrillation attacks is long, it may not be "caught" by the electrocardiogram.

Therefore, Huazi recommends that people with high blood pressure can prepare a portable electrocardiograph that they can carry with them to measure and record their electrocardiogram at any time.

Another danger of atrial fibrillation is that it may cause sudden death. The atria of patients with atrial fibrillation will produce high-frequency fibrillation signals, which may be transmitted to the adjacent ventricles, causing ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular fibrillation is equivalent to cardiac arrest, which will cause the heart to lose its ability to pump blood and the person will die within minutes.

Long-term high blood pressure may also cause coronary atherosclerosis and coronary artery stenosis. If atherosclerotic plaques rupture, platelets will aggregate to form thrombi. If coronary arteries spasm, blood flow may be interrupted at the stenosis. Both causes can lead to acute myocardial infarction and sudden death.

3. Health issues that are easily ignored The biggest problem in the sudden death of "Dancing King" Su Ke was his lack of understanding and neglect of the disease. The most important thing is to ignore blood pressure management. If high blood pressure is not controlled after it occurs, it will cause harm to the body even if no symptoms are felt. In about 10 years, complications will appear in the heart, brain, kidneys, eyes, blood vessels and other organs. Once these diseases occur, they are extremely difficult to reverse.

Another problem is that he neglected to take effective treatment for atrial fibrillation. After atrial fibrillation occurs, electrical stimulation, drugs, surgery and other methods are needed to restore normal heart rhythm. If cardioversion is not possible, long-term anticoagulant treatment is required to prevent the formation of blood clots.

He also neglected self-health management. Although square dancing is a good healthy habit, factors such as overwork, excessive excitement, cold, infection, drinking, smoking, etc. can easily induce rapid atrial fibrillation and lead to unexpected dangers. The "Dancing King"'s cerebral infarction and sudden death occurred in the cold season and after dancing, which was the direct cause.

Many people actually ignore these health problems that "Dancing King" Su Ke ignores. Many people think that if there are no symptoms, there is no disease, and thus resist treatment. When the disease comes, it will be too late to regret. I hope everyone can learn more about medical knowledge, protect their own health, and not use their own lives to remind others of their health.

It is important to remember that the best treatment is to nip the disease in the bud before it occurs.

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