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About It
Facts About Blood Cholesterol
Table of Contents |
Why Blood Cholesterol Matters |
The Blood Cholesterol--Heart Disease Connection |
 Other Risk Factors For Heart Disease |
Who Can Benefit From Lowering Blood Cholesterol? |
Cholesterol--In Your Blood, In Your Diet |
LDL- and HDL-Cholesterol: The Bad and The Good |
Things That Affect Blood Cholesterol |
Have Your Blood Cholesterol Checked |
Guidelines For Heart-Healthy Living |
Making The Guidelines Work: Eat The Heart-Healthy Way |
Eat Out The Heart-Healthy Way |
Make Physical Activity Part Of Your Routine |
Lose Weight Sensibly |
Cholesterol Levels In Children? |
How High Is a Child's "High" Blood Cholesterol? |
In Case You Were Wondering... |
Should You Know Your Cholesterol Ratio? |
What are Triglycerides? |
Will Lowering My Blood Cholesterol Help Me Live Longer? |
Is It Safe To Eat In A Heart-Healthy Way? |
How Much Will Your Cholesterol Levels Change?
Other Risk Factors for Heart Disease
A high blood cholesterol level is not the only thing that increases your chance of
getting heart disease. Here is a list of known risk factors:
- Factors You Can Do Something About
- Cigarette smoking
- High blood cholesterol (high total and LDL-cholesterol)
- Low HDL-cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Obesity/overweight
- Physical inactivity
- Factors You Cannot Control
- Age:
- 45 years or older for men
- 55 years or older for women
- Family history of early heart disease (heart attack or sudden death):
- father or brother stricken before the age of 55
- mother or sister stricken before the age of 65
The more risk factors you have, the greater your chance of heart disease.
Fortunately, most of these risk factors
are things you can do something about.
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