Thin bodies but Have High Cholesterol
Healthy Lifestyle December 25th, 2009
High cholesterol is identified with people who are overweight or obese. But the thin body of people who were equally likely to get high cholesterol.
“Cholesterol is fat in the blood rather than fat under the skin. So people who might lean body high cholesterol,” says Dr. Dante Saksono H, SpPD, PhD, when contacted by Cedrika, Thursday (24/12/2009) .
Dr. Dante adds a fat person or obese tended to have high cholesterol levels because of insulin resistance causes fat metabolism changed. But that does not mean that thin people may not have high cholesterol.
What symptoms of high cholesterol?
High cholesterol in the body did not show any symptoms or complaints in person. Usually people have realized the high complications such as heart disease and stroke if the blood vessels and interfere with hypertension.
“If someone has hypertension, so that high cholesterol will cause pain in the back of the head neck,” said the doctor who practices at the Hospital Mitra Keluarga Kelapa Gading.
Dr. Dante adds clinically there are some things that can be used as initial guidelines one having high cholesterol, namely the existence of fat deposits on the eyelids. These deposits usually contain levels of triglycerides (fatty acid molecules) high. But this happens only a small part of it.
Better for who was aged over 40 years to do cholesterol tests every year. But for those who already have disorders such as high blood cholesterol could not hurt to do a cholesterol since the age of 25 years.
Someone said to have high cholesterol levels if the value of total cholesterol of more than 240 mg / dl blood. If someone can detect high cholesterol before complications occur, it is expected that these complications do not occur.
To reduce high cholesterol levels of patients are required to make low-fat diet, exercise diligently, for those who try to quit smoking and if necessary the patient should be taking drugs.
High cholesterol do not cause any symptoms until the occurrence of complications, for it does not hurt to apply healthy living with proper diet and diligent exercise.
