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High blood cholesterol: FAQ
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 07 05

Question: Do I need to worry about lowering my blood cholesterol now that I’m over 65?
Answer: Yes. Older Americans have the Nation’s highest rate of Coronary heart disease (CHD) and can…


 

How does high blood cholesterol affect your risk for heart disease?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 07 05

Cholesterol is a fatty substance produced by the liver to help meet the body’s need for hormones and bile acids. It also enters the body when…


 

How can you lower your blood cholesterol?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 07 05

Reducing your blood cholesterol level can greatly lessen the chances of developing Coronary heart disease. Most people can lower their blood cholesterol by changing their diet, losing excess weight, and…


 

High Blood cholesterol: Other medications
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

In addition to cholesterol lowering and control of the other risk factors, including Diabetes, there are other treatments to help lower your risk from Heart disease. Aspirin, a…


 

What Do Your Cholesterol Numbers Mean?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

Everyone age 20 and older should have their cholesterol measured at least once every 5 years. It is best to have a blood test called a “lipoprotein profile” to find out…


 

How Does Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

When there is too much cholesterol (a fat-like substance) in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries. Over time, this buildup causes “hardening of the arteries” so…


 

The Benefits of Cholesterol Lowering
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

Recent studies have shown that cholesterol lowering in people without Heart disease greatly reduces their risk for developing CHD, including Heart Attacks and CHD-related death. This…


 

What does cholesterol have to do with heart disease?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

The Framingham Heart Study established that High Blood cholesterol is a risk factor for Coronary heart disease (CHD).


 

Why Is Cholesterol Important?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

Your blood cholesterol level has a lot to do with your chances of getting Heart disease. High Blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for

 

What Makes Your Cholesterol High or Low?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

Your blood cholesterol level is affected not only by what you eat but also by how quickly your body makes LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and disposes of it. In…


 

How to stay on your Cholesterol- Lowering Medication
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Aug 06 05

The first step to staying on your medication is understanding what you are taking and why.


 

Cholesterol Lowering Medications
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 25 05

To reach an LDL-cholesterol goal of less than 100 mg/dL, you may need to take a cholesterol-lowering medicine in addition to making the life habit changes already mentioned. Heart disease…


 

What Is High Blood Cholesterol?
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 25 05

Too much cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol) in the blood, or high blood cholesterol, can be serious. People with high blood cholesterol have a greater chance of getting heart disease. High blood cholesterol itself does…


 

Statins
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 25 05

There are currently five statin drugs on the market in the United States: lovastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin, fluvastatin, and atorvastatin (cerivastatin was withdrawn from the market by the manufacturer in August 2001). The major effect of the…


 

Fibrates
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 24 05

The cholesterol-lowering drugs called fibrates are primarily effective in lowering triglycerides and, to a lesser extent, in increasing HDL-cholesterol levels. Gemfibrozil, the fibrate most widely used in the United States, can be very effective…


 

Nicotinic acid
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 24 05

Nicotinic acid or niacin, the water-soluble B vitamin, improves all lipoproteins when given in doses well above the vitamin requirement. Nicotinic acid lowers total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, while raising

 

Bile acid sequestrants
• High Blood cholesterol articles • Jul 24 05

Bile acid sequestrants bind with cholesterol-containing bile acids in the intestines and are then eliminated in the stool. The usual effect of bile acid sequestrants is to lower LDL-cholesterol by about 10…


 
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