Summary
Circulatory disorders can be acute or chronic. They can appear suddenly or form on the bottom of another underlying disease (diabetes, hypercholesterolemia). A circulatory disorder can occur in practically any part of the body and become symptomatic.
Although these different factors result in a very heterogeneous clinical picture, many similarities can be found. The result of circulatory disorders is always a reduced supply of oxygen to the organ supplied by the constricted/occluded vessel, whether it is the heart, the brain or the muscles. This lack of supply makes itself felt through a functional impairment and usually also through pain.
Depending on the affected area, a specific treatment will of course follow. However, a positive effect on all types of circulatory disorders is the reduction of risk factors, which in this country include smoking, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, unhealthy nutrition with resulting obesity or the widespread disease diabetes mellitus. So if you do something for your body and your health in general, you can never completely rule out the possibility of a circulatory disorder, but you can significantly reduce the risk.
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