Did you know that for most of us, there is no high cholesterol symptoms whatsoever? Most of the time, high cholesterol levels are recorded from routine cholesterol blood samples or when you come with a stroke or a heart attack. In a few cases, cholesterol can be deposited just beneath your skin and would display as yellowish patches around the eyes, the palm, fingers and heels. White rings around the edge of the iris is also a very rare symptom high levels of cholesterol in the blood stream. Cholesterol deposits under the skin is extremely rare and mainly occurs in individuals with inherited high cholesterol levels.
A number of factors contribute to high cholesterol levels. Some of these factors is an inactive lifestyle, obesity, eating a diet rich in saturated fat as animal fats and margarine, inherit the outline to high cholesterol levels, alcohol abuse, smoking, presence of other diseases such as diabetes, Kidney disease and hypothyroidism, which reduces the metabolism. It is important to note that even thin people can have high cholesterol levels, if they lead a sedentary life or eat the wrong kind of fats or has a genetic disposition.
There are two kinds of cholesterol and fats, good cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and bad cholesterol or low-density lipoprotein (LDL). Good cholesterol actually removes the bad cholesterol from your blood and takes it to the liver for elimination. It also reduces the chances of LDL sticking to your arteries. LDL is on the other hand, sticks to the arteries and veins causing narrow and blocking.
Since most of us high cholesterol symptoms are not present, we must be vigilant and look for risk factors. It's also good to go to your control as recommended. Broadly, we recommend that you should start making cholesterol test every five years when you become 20 years old. If your risk factors high, can then go ahead and do it with your annual medical checkup. The most common test performed is the cholesterol test which simply controls the total amount of cholesterol in your blood. Normal levels ranging from 190-210 mg/dl, high levels ranging from 240-330 mg/dl.
If you find you have high cholesterol levels and has no other symptoms, it may be good for you go to a lipoprotein test to determine which type of cholesterol is high in your body. You want to ensure that your HDL is less than a third of your total cholesterol levels and lipoprotein test can tell you this. When you have confirmed this, it is important for you to start reducing your cholesterol. You can reduce your cholesterol level through exercise, eating right, reduce their intake of saturated fat, and increase your intake of HDL fats (HDL fats can be found in omega 3 oils), stop smoking and, if necessary, take any medicine prescribed by your doctor.
High cholesterol symptoms may not be obvious to most of us, but by testing as often as recommended by the doctor and change our lifestyle to eliminate any risk factors which may cause cholesterol to build up in our bodies, we will be able to prevent heart disease and strokes to a large extent.
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar