Coronary Heart Disease (full name as coronary atherosclerotic heart disease) is a disease that has serious impacts on human's health and safety. There are many reasons that induce arteriosclerosis. One of the reasons is the effect of peroxidation which damages arterial intima. After the arterial Intima gets damaged, cholesterol, calcium, platelet are easily formed cohesion and deposition at damaged areas. Under the lower lining of damaged intima, the inflammatory reaction occurs and blood vessel walls get thicken, therefore atherosclerosis forms.

Among many reasons for the incidence of coronary heart disease, lack of selenium is one of them. It has been observed in clinical studies that the serum selenium levels in patients with myocardial infarction and with angina pectoris have been significantly lower than that in healthy people . The study found the more serious coronary heart disease, the patient's blood selenium levels lower. Thus, the decreased serum selenium concentrations will increase the incidence risk of coronary heart disease. The selenium plays the roles of the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease.

Stabilizing and repairing myocardial cells

Selenium is a strong antioxidant. When lacking selenium, the arterial intima is prone to get oxidative damage. In addition, the selenium participates in the stabilization and repair of damaged myocardial cell membrane as well as in the maintainence of normal functions of cells. Adequate selenium can improve the cardiac insufficiency, speed up the repair of damaged cells, reduce the range of myocardial infarct, increase the blood flow volume of coronary artery, improve microcirculation and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption. In other words, the appropriate concentrations of selenium have a protective effect on the arterial intima, so that it can prevent arteriosclerosis.

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