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American medical press cholesterol considered as the murderer number one cardiovascular health.

Increased blood cholesterol is common and occasionally has a familiar character. Make sure with the help of your doctor about what level of risk, particularly if there are relatives on the paternal or maternal coronary heart disease.

If you know that your cholesterol is high, find out what it means to such an increase and know that there are ways to reduce it, starting with lifestyle change. Your doctor will tell you if it is also necessary to continue treatment with drugs to reduce cholesterol levels. Read the rest of this entry »

How broadly the treatment of hypercholesterolemia?

According to most current guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular risk, LDL cholesterol remains the primary goal of treatment. The approach to the problem of its increase is consistent with the risk status of the person:

When there is heart disease, or detect disease risk equivalent, like other non-coronary pathological changes produced by atherosclerosis (such as peripheral artery disease, dilated (aneurysm) of the abdominal aorta and artery disease in the neck (carotid ) that causes symptoms), or if the person has diabetes, the goal is to reduce LDL to levels below 100 mg/dl. In this case, and address other risk factors and start a healthy diet, drugs may be required to normalize the levels of blood fats. Read the rest of this entry »

What can the doctor do?

To prevent cardiovascular disease is crucial to identify people with changes in the profile of blood fats, and help to regulate this problem. According to U.S. figures, and although it has reduced cholesterol levels modestly since the early sixties, the latest estimates indicate that 50% of all U.S. adults are detected concentrations of cholesterol above 200 mg/dl and that 20% of adults these levels are at or above 240 mg/dl.

American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology have developed a scoring system to calculate the risk of coronary heart disease according to age, total cholesterol (and fractions thereof), blood pressure, if it is or nondiabetic and whether or not smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

The main fat in the blood are cholesterol, triglycerides, free fatty acids and phospholipids. These fats are not soluble in blood plasma and combined with certain other substances to form larger carrier molecules, called lipoproteins, which have been recognized by ultracentrifuge techniques. Various lipoproteins have been found attached to cholesterol, among which the low density lipoproteins (LDL, since it keeps the name in English-low density lipoprotein-) and high density lipoproteins (HDL or high density lipoprotein) are the most recognized.

The LDL particles play a fundamental and necessary role in the formation of atherosclerosis. Its increase in blood is considered harmful and is a target for treatments aimed at reducing cardiovascular risk. In contrast, HDL has the opposite effect than before and their increase in blood is considered protective with respect to cardiovascular risk. Read the rest of this entry »

Among the male population, cardiovascular disease appears earlier than in women, but this early effect is attenuated substantially after age 60. After menopause, the risk of coronary heart disease is three times higher than women. After 50 years, cholesterol levels seem to stabilize between men, while women showed an increase.

What does cardiovascular risk?

Since the sixties, coined the term cardiovascular risk factor that describes a characteristic of a particular person (or a population of people) associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in the future. Cardiovascular health, talk of prevention is to talk about risk factors. Read the rest of this entry »

The treatment of diseases caused by atherosclerosis is a challenge for all health professionals, especially those involved in preventing disease before it appears. Primary prevention is aimed at detecting the specialty and establish measures to prevent the emergence of new cases of a particular disease.

It is estimated that more than one third of all deaths in developed countries are due to coronary disease.

Since the eighties male mortality due to coronary heart disease has declined steadily through prevention efforts, but among women, the presence of coronary heart disease seems to increase. Read the rest of this entry »

Atherosclerosis is a disease that damages the body’s arteries. When it affects the area of ​​the coronary arteries causes heart disease or ischemic heart disease (including diseases such as myocardial infarction and various types of angina pectoris).

In addition to the PCI, were also located in other areas such as cerebral artery, the artery of the abdominal cavity or aorta and other arteries called peripheral, so in the medical literature, the disease caused by the formation of atherosclerotic arterial lesions of the body often referred to as well as cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease.

The importance of cholesterol is because he is associated with atherosclerotic disease, particularly when it affects the arteries of the heart (coronary arteries), and from early observations on animals fed high-cholesterol and demonstrating that he was involved as an important constituent of atherosclerotic plaque (lesion characteristic of the disease). Read the rest of this entry »

You know that exercise will be good for over weight problem and cholesterol. But you don’t have time to meet your personal trainer in the gym. You leave home early and go back from office very late. The hectic life should not keep you from maintaining good level of cholesterol. You deserve for healthy weight just like other people. The key will be reveal in a second.

Exercise will burn fat, mobilize it as energy. Gymnasium is a perfect place to do exercise. You could use variety of tools and machine and create your own program. If you are too hectic to arrange time for gym, there are some routine you can do from home. The weakness of this ‘at home exercise’ could be it easily makes you bored. You can manage to go to gym or jogging in the park for variation to manage the action on how to lower cholesterol.

The at home program is the circle work out. The exercise consists of sit up, stand position or lying down on the floor. Keep yourself safe from hard impact by using floor matt. If you are out of idea of the routine the video for circle work out are easily found in the market.  Remember, change your routine once you are bored. Don’t create new excuse not to do exercise just because you think it is not cool and boring. Discipline is the key. Being discipline is not born gift, you can develop discipline if you know in details the result of the exercise. Say to yourself that you don’t want to spend your old time in a bed because of severe stroke attack. Browse for more information in lowercholesterol.org

Dr. Karas was not only responsible to clarify that the cause is still unknown point in the relationship between “good” cholesterol or HDL and oncological diseases, but also the concerns about drugs should not be taken as specific recommendations .

“HDL is supposed to affect the likelihood of developing cancer or not more so because it does work for assistance with the immune system, helping to find and destroy abnormal cells,” concluded Dr. Richard Karas.

For his part, Dr. Eduardo Esteban, cardiologist, executive committee member of the Heart Foundation Argentina, accessed locally by Pro-Health News said that “beyond that is important to keep your HDL levels raised by scientists Americans, the main work of one person must be kept under your LDL or bad cholesterol, a condition that is achieved by implementing many of the measures mentioned above and habits. ”

“This means that of course have the higher good cholesterol is very good, but most of all have to work on reducing the bad which is what brings more complications,” added Dr. Stephen.

After having shown that people with high levels of LDL or ‘bad’ had a greater chance of developing cancer, a group of researchers concluded that having high cholesterol “good”, ie the HDL (high density lipoprotein) helps to reduce the risk of development of oncological diseases.

The team of Dr. Richard Karas of the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts University in Boston, United States, analyzed 24 studies involving a total of 76 000 people under treatment with statins and 70 000 who were taking placebo.

“The higher the HDL the better the quality of life of the person,” said Dr. Karas in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

From experience, the team led by Karas was found that with increasing the level of HDL is a risk of developing any cancer decreased. In this regard, they noted that “physicians should try to ensure that their patients have a good cholesterol 40mg/dL above for men and above 50 mg / dL for women.”

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