How old is my blood vessel?Cardio-cerebrovascular disease prevention management week. Knowing the number of self-vessels and conducting a red circle campaign
Sep 01, 2025
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On September 1-7, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Diseases and local governments across the country will conduct the 「"Knowing Self-Vascular Numbers, Red Circle Campaign".
A red circle refers to a healthy blood vessel, and the red circle campaign has been conducted since 2014 to inform the message of preventing and managing cardio-cerebrovascular disease by knowing and managing blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels. Cardio-cerebrovascular diseases include heart diseases such as myocardial infarction and angina, cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.
This campaign emphasizes the importance of early recognition of high blood pressure, diabetes, and dyslipidemia for the 2040s and managing them well to prevent severe cardio-cerebrovascular disease. In particular, the timing of treatment and management is also being delayed as there are many adults in their 20s and 40s who do not know if they are patients, even though they can start treatment and management only when they know that there is a disease. Among the patients, adults who already recognize that they are suffering from a disease vary from disease to disease, but the level was 60-70%, which differed greatly by age.
For example, 87.1% of patients over the age of 70 knew they had high blood pressure, compared to only half of those in their 40s, one in four in their 30s, and one in five in their 20s. In other words, 10 out of 100 adults in their 30s are hypertensive patients, and 7 to 8 of them do not know if they are hypertensive patients.
If preceding diseases such as high blood pressure are not well managed, the risk of other cardio-cerebrovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke increases, and various complications such as chronic kidney disease, retinopathy, and nerve damage can occur, so it is most important to recognize the disease early and receive constant treatment.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will directly discover ideas from young people who are the main promotional targets through the Government Advertising Creative Festival contest, while conducting a public quiz event in collaboration with the National Health Information Portal. In addition, promotional contents will be transmitted through broadcasting media, and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directly participated in the narration of the radio public service advertisement.
Each local government conducts education, health counseling, blood pressure measurement, and simple blood tests through the operation of a red circle zone (experiential health booth), health walking events, and invited health lectures by experts.
"As cardio-cerebrovascular disease accounts for four of the top 10 causes of death in Korea, knowing blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels is the first step in 2040 health care," said Lim Seung-kwan, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "As symptoms are not clear and it is easy to miss the timing of management, please recognize your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels through regular tests and measurements from your 20s, and pay attention to living rules such as smoking cessation, exercise, diet and weight control."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
