Cholesterol and Heart Attack

Introduction
Very few people are aware about the relationship between the cholesterol and heart attack.

Blood Cholesterol Level
Cholesterol occurs in all foods of animal origin. Blood cholesterol level is controlled by following factors.
1)The amount absorbed from food.
2)The rate of catabolism (destruction of food for energy production) and excretion in the bile.
3)Intestinal absorption of bile acids
4)Equillibrium between plasma and tissue.

Blood cholesterol numbers are the best  indicators of cholesterol level.

Importance of Cholesterol
Your blood cholesterol level has a lot to do with your chances of getting heart attack.

High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart attack.

A risk factor is a condition that increases your chance of getting a disease.

In fact, the higher your blood cholesterol level, the greater your risk for developing heart disease or having a heart attack.

Heart Attack is the number one killer of women and men in the United States. Each year, more than a million Americans have heart attacks, and about a half million people die from heart disease.

Cholesterol and Heart Attack

Over time, this buildup causes hardening of the arteries so that arteries become narrowed and blood flow to the heart is slowed down or blocked.

The blood carries oxygen to the heart, and if enough blood and oxygen cannot reach your heart, you may suffer chest pain.

If the blood supply to a portion of the heart is completely cut off by a blockage, the result is a heart attack.

High blood cholesterol level  itself does not cause high cholesterol symptoms, in the earlier stages ,so many people are unaware that their cholesterol level is too high.

But in the late or chronic stages high cholesterol symptoms are shown in many other organs.

It is important to find out what your cholesterol numbers are because lowering cholesterol levels that are too high lessens the risk for developing heart disease and reduces the chance of a heart attack or dying of heart disease, even if you already have it.

Cholesterol lowering is important for everyone younger, middle age, and older adults; women and men; and people with or without heart disease.

There are number of cholesterol medicines are available in the market.

But before starting to take any cholesterol medicine the causes of high cholesterol should be rectified.

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Despite having healthy cholesterol levels You are just as vulnerable to heart attacks and or strokes.

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