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Understanding the Cholesterol Ratio

It is important to understand that being diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol) Macedonia and increases your risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. It is equally important that you know that it is essential that your cholesterol levels are balanced.

To do this, your diet should be low in saturated fat and rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy products, low fat, as well as fish and lean meats. You also need to adopt a healthy lifestyle, which leaves considerable room for physical activity.

Regarding cholesterol, it is important that you know your cholesterol bound to low density lipoprotein (LDL), also called “bad cholesterol”. However, that’s not all! You must also balance your good cholesterol (HDL-C) and your bad cholesterol (LDL-C). This balance is reflected by a single number called “Ratio. In fact, your Cholesterol Ratio is a long-term indicators of your cardiovascular risk. The knowledge could change your life.

The heart pumps blood through blood vessels called arteries and the blood carries vital oxygen with nutrients needed by tissues and organs throughout the body.

When cholesterol levels are above normal limits and stay high, some remnants of cholesterol are deposited in the arteries and through the years, they are hardened by a fatty substance called cholesterol plaque that accumulates on the walls of the arteries and reduces or blocks blood flow.

The organs supplied by these arteries are damaged because they can not get oxygen and nutrients needed by limiting blood flow through the arteries, so for example when blood flow to the brain is blocked, it causes a stroke or if the plaque completely blocks a coronary artery, is when we are in presence of a heart attack.

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