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What is High Cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that's found in the fats (lipids) in your blood. While your body needs cholesterol to
continue building healthy cells, having high cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease.
When you have high cholesterol, you may develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels. Eventually, these deposits make
it difficult for enough blood to flow through your arteries. Your heart may not get as much oxygen-rich blood as it needs,
which increases the risk of a heart attack. Decreased blood flow to your brain can cause a stroke.
High cholesterol has no symptoms. A blood test is the only way to detect high cholesterol.
Causes
Factors within your control — such as inactivity, obesity and an unhealthy diet — contribute to high LDL cholesterol and
low HDL cholesterol. Factors beyond your control may play a role, too. For example, your genetic makeup may keep
cells from removing LDL cholesterol from your blood efficiently or cause your liver to produce too much cholesterol.
Western Medicine Treatment
Lifestyle changes such as exercising and eating a healthy diet are the first line of defense against high cholesterol.
• Statins — among the most commonly prescribed medications for lowering cholesterol — block a substance your
liver needs to make cholesterol. This causes your liver to remove cholesterol from your blood. Statins may also
help your body reabsorb cholesterol from built up deposits on your artery walls, potentially reversing coronary
artery disease.
• Bile-acid-binding resins. Your liver uses cholesterol to make bile acids, a substance needed for digestion. The
medications cholestyramine (Prevalite, Questran), colesevelam (Welchol) and colestipol (Colestid) lower
cholesterol indirectly by binding to bile acids. This prompts your liver to use excess cholesterol to make more bile
acids, which reduces the level of cholesterol in your blood.
• Cholesterol absorption inhibitors. Your small intestine absorbs the cholesterol from your diet and releases it into
your bloodstream. The drug ezetimibe (Zetia) helps reduce blood cholesterol by limiting the absorption of dietary
cholesterol
• Combination cholesterol absorption inhibitor and statin. The combination drug ezetimibe-simvastatin (Vytorin)
decreases both absorption of dietary cholesterol in your small intestine and production of cholesterol in your liver.
It's unknown whether Vytorin is more effective in reducing heart disease risk than taking simvastatin by itself.
Alternative Medicine
There is a significant progress using alternative medicine in this area.
If you want a referral of an expert alternative medicine practitioner in your
local area, please use our free referral service by calling our toll-free at
1-888-919-1188, or e-mail us to wei@weilab.com, or click the button
at the right to have us contact you.
Information gathered from the Mayo Clinic
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that's found in the fats (lipids) in your blood. While your body needs cholesterol to
continue building healthy cells, having high cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease.
When you have high cholesterol, you may develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels. Eventually, these deposits make
it difficult for enough blood to flow through your arteries. Your heart may not get as much oxygen-rich blood as it needs,
which increases the risk of a heart attack. Decreased blood flow to your brain can cause a stroke.
High cholesterol has no symptoms. A blood test is the only way to detect high cholesterol.
Causes
Factors within your control — such as inactivity, obesity and an unhealthy diet — contribute to high LDL cholesterol and
low HDL cholesterol. Factors beyond your control may play a role, too. For example, your genetic makeup may keep
cells from removing LDL cholesterol from your blood efficiently or cause your liver to produce too much cholesterol.
Western Medicine Treatment
Lifestyle changes such as exercising and eating a healthy diet are the first line of defense against high cholesterol.
• Statins — among the most commonly prescribed medications for lowering cholesterol — block a substance your
liver needs to make cholesterol. This causes your liver to remove cholesterol from your blood. Statins may also
help your body reabsorb cholesterol from built up deposits on your artery walls, potentially reversing coronary
artery disease.
• Bile-acid-binding resins. Your liver uses cholesterol to make bile acids, a substance needed for digestion. The
medications cholestyramine (Prevalite, Questran), colesevelam (Welchol) and colestipol (Colestid) lower
cholesterol indirectly by binding to bile acids. This prompts your liver to use excess cholesterol to make more bile
acids, which reduces the level of cholesterol in your blood.
• Cholesterol absorption inhibitors. Your small intestine absorbs the cholesterol from your diet and releases it into
your bloodstream. The drug ezetimibe (Zetia) helps reduce blood cholesterol by limiting the absorption of dietary
cholesterol
• Combination cholesterol absorption inhibitor and statin. The combination drug ezetimibe-simvastatin (Vytorin)
decreases both absorption of dietary cholesterol in your small intestine and production of cholesterol in your liver.
It's unknown whether Vytorin is more effective in reducing heart disease risk than taking simvastatin by itself.
Alternative Medicine
There is a significant progress using alternative medicine in this area.
If you want a referral of an expert alternative medicine practitioner in your
local area, please use our free referral service by calling our toll-free at
1-888-919-1188, or e-mail us to wei@weilab.com, or click the button
at the right to have us contact you.
Information gathered from the Mayo Clinic
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