Cholesterol high low are not good

China population health survey data show that China's high blood fat crowd has up to 1.6 billion, including cholesterol hazards maximum.

Experiments show that total cholesterol reduction of 1%, the risk of coronary heart disease and deaths can be reduced by 2%.

Cholesterol in the body is in a soft, waxy substance that it is blood and human fat in all cells of a natural element.

Cholesterol is a healthy human body a necessary part of the blood of people with high cholesterol increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke or heart attack.

At present, there is a high incidence of the disease.

Although some genetic may be the cause of, but a growing number of people suffering from this disease mainly due to their excessive intake of rich saturated fat diet and sedentary lifestyle of less dynamic. The total amount of cholesterol in the blood of the normal range should be 140 ~ 200 mg/dl. Content is 200 ~ 240 mg/dl expressed moderate risk, and the content of more than 240 mg/dl shows a high degree of risk. In the early symptoms of high cholesterol usually did not show any symptoms. Thus, by regular blood test for early detection of disease is extremely important.

High cholesterol is coronary heart disease and stroke secondary cardiovascular disease one of the important risk factors, interventions by lipids is the current effective measures to control coronary heart disease.

At present, because doctors, patients and the public's awareness of the blood is not enough, our prevailing Dyslipidemia low awareness and low medication rates, low success rate, and so on, cause-related disease incidence is increasing. To this end, the Ministry of health recently launched the "2006 China cholesterol and heart failure education programme". This version especially organized the following articles in the hope that more people to pay attention to this issue. -Editor's note

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standard, high blood fat disease as well as the resulting cerebrovascular diseases showed an upward trend.

Cholesterol intake increase is caused by this kind of one of the main causes of disease. Then, cholesterol what "good"? to this end, we interviewed the PLA General Hospital and the first affiliated hospital (formerly PLA 304 hospital) Deputy Director Huang's cardiology.

Huang Director said that cholesterol is to maintain human life activities indispensable material.

It constitutes the human body cell membrane, corticosteroid component one of the fundamental constituents of bile acids, and participation of nerve conduction, maintaining the stability of immune cells and white blood cell vitality and other important physiological functions. Cholesterol, there are two sources of exogenous cholesterol from cholesterol foods such as fatty meat, animal offal and egg yolk. Major endogenous cholesterol in the liver and small intestine. Cholesterol content should be maintained in a certain State, too high or too low are detrimental to health.

The main ingredient is blood cholesterol and triglycerides.

High cholesterol intake, leading to elevated blood lipids, which in turn can cause atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke risk factors, high blood fat, deposited in the blood vessel wall, atherosclerotic plaque formation and plaque, will block the artery lumen. If this occurs in the heart, which occurred in the coronary artery, resulting in acute myocardial infarction, but if it occurs in the brain, it will cause a stroke; cholesterol content, will produce a series of metabolic disorders that cause human immune function, vulnerable to infectious diseases and cancer incidence rates rise. At the same time promote cell ageing, lead to a brother.

Caused by high cholesterol was due to a food contains a lot of saturated fat and cholesterol, genetic factors, obesity, old age, certain diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.

Generally high cholesterol, body and no ill feeling, therefore, the medical profession have called "silent killer" health, therefore, to focus on the periodic health examination at any time found issues are handled in a timely manner.

Recommendation 20 years of healthy adults every five years a blood lipid tests, 45 years of healthy people should annual blood lipid tests. For cholesterol intake shortage of patients, the same can not be taken lightly, such patients in current even though you have not much, but did not completely disappear, particularly to malnutrition, poor appetite, should undergo regular hospital.

Prevent high blood fat disease, mainly in the following points: firstly to develop good eating habits.

To eat less food containing high cholesterol: such as egg yolks, animal brain, modouyu (squid), crab meat, liver and kidney, eat milk, beans and other foods containing cholesterol; second, the new Office, pay attention to the balance on time. To rest, strengthening exercises, pay attention to the nutritional balance. For their favorite things, do not drink, eat sea Hu is not interested in food, nor can a mouth do not eat; third, not smoking, drinking, remain optimistic mood.

For the serious shortage of cholesterol intake shall be appropriate to increase nutrition, ensuring good health are not affected.

(Practice editing: plum and apricot)