Information About Cholesterol And Heart Disease

Information About Cholesterol And Heart Disease
By T J Madigan

Many of us know what cholesterol and heart disease are. What
most of us don’t know is that there are arguments whether
cholesterol is the main cause of heart disease. Some experts say
that cholesterol is one of the main cause of heart disease while
there are others who think otherwise.

Experts from the Framingham Heart Study have determined that
high blood cholesterol is one of the factors for a coronary
heart disease or CHD. The result of their study showed that the
ones who have a higher cholesterol level is the most likely he
will have a coronary heart disease or CHD. Coronary heart
disease is unusual at low cholesterol levels. A connection
between high blood cholesterol and heart disease was also
confirmed by another group of experts. Their studies showed that
lowering the total LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) levels
drastically reduces coronary heart disease. Recently, a series
of trials of cholesterol using statin drugs showed that lowering
the total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol greatly reduces the
chance of experiencing a heart attack, angioplasty (a bypass
that requires surgery) and dying of coronary heart
disease-related causes.

What are the risk factors that increases the risk of developing
heart disease? The risk factors are the condition that one has.
Even though some risk factors can be modified some risk factor
can not be changed. All in all, the more risk factor that you
have the more chances you will be experiencing a heart disease.
Here are some of the risk factor that can not be modified:

* Age (55 and above

for female while 45 and above for male)
* Family history (parents or sibling who died of a heart
disease at the age stated above)

Here are some known risk factors that one can change:

* High total cholesterol and high LDL (bad) cholesterol
* Low HDL (good) cholesterol
* Smoking
* High blood pressure
* Diabetes ( the risk of developing a heart disease is high if
you are diabetic)
* Physical inactivity
* Obesity or overweight

It is advisable to go to a physician if you are not sure if you
have a high blood cholesterol.

Although some expert agree that the high blood cholesterol and
heart disease is somewhat connected; there are also a few expert
who tend to disagree that too much animal fat or high
cholesterol and heart disease go together. They argued that
there is no such thing as “bad” or “good” cholesterol. They
believe that mental stress, physical activity and change of body
weight may influence the level of the blood cholesterol and that
a high blood cholesterol is not dangerous but only reflects an
unhealthy condition. There lots of factors that some experts
disagree with each other. Whatever causes of high cholesterol
and heart disease are. The only sure thing is… to live a healthy
life.

About the Author: T J Madigan has been established in online
business since 1998 and is director of a number of successful
online projects one of which is http://www.articles.net.au your
best source for FREE articles and information.

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