18/07/2026
診間常有患者問我,為什麼健檢突然發現血管有問題,明明平常都沒感覺。
Patients often ask me why their checkup suddenly flagged a vascular issue when they never felt anything wrong.
其實這正是血管疾病最麻煩的地方——動脈粥狀硬化是數十年緩慢進展的過程,血管本身沒有痛覺,狹窄到一定程度之前通常沒有任何症狀。等到胸悶、胸痛、或健檢紅字出現時,血管往往已經被影響很久了。
That's actually the tricky part about vascular disease — atherosclerosis progresses silently over decades, and blood vessels don't have pain receptors, so there are usually no symptoms until the narrowing becomes significant. By the time chest tightness, pain, or an abnormal checkup shows up, the vessels have often been affected for a long time.
飲食是這個過程裡最能自己掌握的一環。炸物、加工食品、飽和脂肪、精緻澱粉這類食物,長期吃會增加血管負擔;酪梨、堅果、鮭魚、橄欖油、綠茶、花青素莓果這類食物則相反。一項針對7,447名高心血管風險受試者的大型研究顯示,地中海飲食搭配特級橄欖油或堅果,比起低脂飲食,可以降低30%的重大心血管事件(中風、心肌梗塞、心血管死亡)。
Diet is the part of this process you can actually control. Fried food, processed food, saturated fat, and refined starch add to the burden on your vessels over time; avocado, nuts, salmon, olive oil, green tea, and anthocyanin-rich berries do the opposite. A large study of 7,447 high-cardiovascular-risk participants found that a Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts reduced major cardiovascular events — stroke, heart attack, cardiovascular death — by 30% compared to a low-fat diet.
中醫的角度來看,長期過食肥甘厚膩的食物容易生痰濁,痰瘀互結阻滯脈道,這個概念跟現代醫學講的血管斑塊堆積方向是一致的。
From a Chinese medicine perspective, long-term overconsumption of rich, greasy food generates "phlegm-turbidity," which combines with blood stasis to obstruct the vessels — a concept that lines up with modern medicine's plaque buildup.
如果你有胸悶胸痛、走路小腿痠痛需要休息才能繼續走、或不明原因喘不過氣,尤其又有三高或抽菸病史,這些是需要立即就醫評估的紅旗症狀,不是靠飲食調整就能取代。你上次檢查血管相關的數值是什麼時候?留言告訴我。
If you have chest tightness or pain, calf pain when walking that forces you to stop and rest, or unexplained shortness of breath — especially with a history of high blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, or smoking — these are red flags that need immediate medical evaluation, not something diet alone can fix. When was the last time you checked your vascular-related numbers? Let me know in the comments.
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