[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-detail":3},{"lang":4,"article":5,"alternate":19,"related":20,"latest":29},"en",{"id":6,"slug":7,"title":8,"content":9,"summary":10,"thumbnail":11,"metaDescription":12,"metaKeywords":13,"created":14,"modified":14,"author":15,"authorEn":15,"categoryId":16,"commentCount":17,"thumbnailToContent":18},12733,"blood-vessels-thrombosis-mzqb","Sudden Death and the 100,000 km of Blood Vessels","\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Many people who die suddenly had quietly wrecked the longest organ in their body — long before that one minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">It starts forming in the first month of embryonic development. When the heart begins to beat, blood vessels begin to grow, endlessly. By adulthood, \u003Cstrong>the total length of your blood vessels reaches about 100,000 km — enough to circle the Earth's equator two and a half times\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fattachment\u002F20261006\u002Fba398470daeb4872923329c1d5be6cee.webp\" alt=\"img_01_src.webp\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>The Body's Highway System\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Vessels reach into skin, muscle, and cartilage, through every tissue and organ. It is the expressway inside you, \u003Cstrong>delivering oxygen and nutrients non-stop\u003C\u002Fstrong>, every second of your life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>The Highway Ages — and Clogs\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">When you are young, blood vessels are soft and elastic. With age they inevitably stiffen and harden, and that leads to congestion in the vessel — the doorway to all kinds of cardiovascular disease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">The catch: modern habits are making \u003Cstrong>vessel hardening appear in young people earlier and earlier\u003C\u002Fstrong>. A \"road construction — detour\" sign is going up inside arteries that should still be in their prime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>Late Nights: The Spark That Lights the Fuse\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cstrong>Staying up late is likely the fuse.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Three things happen in sequence:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cstrong>Blood pressure climbs.\u003C\u002Fstrong> To support the body's late-night overdraft, the kidneys secrete \u003Cstrong>adrenaline and noradrenaline\u003C\u002Fstrong>, making the heart beat faster and blood flow quicker — raising blood pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cstrong>Blood pools and thickens.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Night owls tend to sit for hours. Blood gathers in the lower limbs, flows too slowly, turns viscous — and viscous blood easily forms clumps: \u003Cstrong>thrombosis\u003C\u002Fstrong>. For the occasional night owl, the small clots may still be dissolved and absorbed. For the chronic one, small clots grow, become hard to reverse, and trigger an even worse chain reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cstrong>Leptin drops, appetite explodes.\u003C\u002Fstrong> To cover the overdrawn energy bill, the body suppresses \u003Cstrong>leptin\u003C\u002Fstrong> — the hormone that suppresses appetite. Suppressed leptin means hunger. So night owls binge-eat. The fat they eat enters the blood directly; excess sugar and protein get converted by the liver into fat, which also enters the blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fattachment\u002F20261006\u002F863722cbf79345f8a07ce0d6cf48508a.webp\" alt=\"img_04_src.webp\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>LDL: The Delivery Trucks That Became a Problem\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">The body has low-density proteins that carry fat to different tissues — and this pushes blood lipids up fast. Evolution explains why: our ancestors lacked energy intake, so the body evolved to make \u003Cstrong>two-thirds of its lipid carriers low-density transport proteins\u003C\u002Fstrong>. It was a survival design. In the modern all-you-can-eat era, the design backfires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">As lipid levels rise, the clear serum turns into \u003Cstrong>a pale-yellow, even white, viscous liquid — chylous blood\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Chylous blood is a killer of vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>Four Assassins Dig the Holes\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Add \u003Cstrong>excess salt, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and alcohol\u003C\u002Fstrong> — four assassins working together to damage vessels and leave pits on the aging vessel wall. Studies show that \u003Cstrong>excess salt can raise blood pressure within just 30 minutes\u003C\u002Fstrong> and impair the vessel's ability to dilate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>From Pits to Plaques to Stone\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Lipids slip into those pits and form \u003Cstrong>large, hard lumps whose contents are yellow and porridge-like — atherosclerosis\u003C\u002Fstrong>. As lipids accumulate, fibrous tissue grows and wraps the plaques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Then the fibrous tissue degenerates and necrotizes, the inside \u003Cstrong>calcifies into a rock-hard atheroma — so hard that in late stages even a scalpel can't cut it\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">These atheromas narrow the vessel — and as the vessel ages further, \u003Cstrong>the plaque can rupture into the blood at any moment\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fattachment\u002F20261006\u002F45b96a5e6ff54df780a7dd2980a9bfa4.webp\" alt=\"img_02_src.webp\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>The Clot That Runs Through Your Body in a Minute\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Broken plaque fragments, under the clotting action of platelets, form a thrombus. Add the thrombi already floating in the blood, and they merge into a bigger, more unstable clot. Eventually it \u003Cstrong>breaks off — and in just one minute it can travel through the whole body\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">When it enters a narrowed vessel, acute embolism follows:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cstrong>Block the pulmonary artery → pulmonary infarction. Block the coronary artery → myocardial infarction. Block the cerebral artery → cerebral infarction.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fattachment\u002F20261006\u002Fd8fb18bbe84c4cdfb46a8278330729fd.webp\" alt=\"img_03_src.webp\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 style=\"color:#111;font-size:21px;line-height:1.4;margin:28px 0 12px;\">\u003Cstrong>The Hidden Killer Numbers\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">People fear cancer, yet \u003Cstrong>as many as 51% of the world's population die from thrombotic disease\u003C\u002Fstrong> — more than the combined death toll of cancer and infectious disease. This invisible killer once threatened mainly the elderly; with modern lifestyles, \u003Cstrong>it now increasingly takes young lives\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Life comes only once. Watch your mouth, move your legs — and cherish it while you can.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\">Want to see the highway itself — the layered walls and inner lumen of the vessels that deliver this story? \u003Cstrong>WWAI\u003C\u002Fstrong> is an AI-powered biology encyclopedia with an online microscope, including a \u003Cstrong>blood vessel specimen where the layered walls and lumen of arteries and veins are clearly visible\u003C\u002Fstrong>. 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