HDL Cholesterol is not good enough

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HDL Cholesterol is not good enough

For so many years, High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) has been seen as the good cholesterol that can help us reduce the bad cholesterol level or Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), therefore we’ve been encourage to raise the Good cholesterol, the more HDL in the blood level would be the better. However the new study publish in the December 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal said a different thing.

Researchers from University of Chicago, shows that the good cholesterol (HDL) itself has a different level in quality and a bad quality of HDL can actually bad for you.

The researcher found that people with chronic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, kidney disease and diabetes, have a different HDL compare to the HDL from the healthy people, even when their blood level of HDL are comparable. The HDL from the healthy people can reduce inflammation while the HDL from the people with chronic disease cannot.

This is might can explain that why some people can still develop cardiovascular disease while they have perfect cholesterol levels. Therefore it become a subject that for some people with high HDL blood level are not necessarily protected from the heart disease problem, they should ask their doctor to find out if their high HDL is a good one or a bad one.

So if you think that your high HDL Cholesterol Level is good, you might want to think again.. what do you say??


Article source:
http://www.fasebj.org/Press_Room/December_2008_Press_Release.shtml



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Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Disease

The function of human’s heart is to pump the blood through the body’s circulatory system. The walls of the heart have their own blood vessels.

There are two types of blood vessels: Arteries are the blood vessels that deliver the oxygen and nutrients (include cholesterol). Veins are the blood vessels that carry waste and carbon dioxide away.

A healthy artery is the one which carries the blood containing oxygen and nutrients smoothly like a freeway.

When one has too much cholesterol in their blood steam, the excess cholesterol will start to form a fatty deposit within the arteries wall. This fatty deposit is called Plague. If one does not lower their cholesterol level then this plague will still built up within the arteries wall. If this plaque still continue to build up then the flow of the blood will become slower as blood has trouble flowing through the plaque.

Chest pain can happen when the plaque block a lot of the blood flow, this disease called Angina

If the blockage make the blood cannot deliver the oxygen to the heart, a heart attack can occur.

If the blockage occurs to the blood vessels that go to the brain a stroke can result a stroke.

How I can prevent cardiovascular disease?

As the general rule, the lower your cholesterol level, the lower possibility you’re going to have a cardiovascular disease. Couple of things you could do to prevent cardiovascular disease would be:

• Quit Smoking as smoking can put your risk of heart attack or stroke double
• Avoid Saturated Fat in your diet. As saturated fat put more cholesterol into your blood vessel
• Include lots and lots of fruit, fish and vegetables in your diet
• Control your blood pressure
• Maintain a healthy Weight and do not be Overweight
• Stay active. Exercise for at least 30 minutes everyday.

However there are things that out of your control that can increase your possibility to have cardiovascular disease that you should be put into some consideration for example:

• Genetic Factor - if one or both of your parents, or your brothers and sisters have had cardiovascular disease history
• Age – The older you are, the risk of developing cardiovascular disease is greater.
• Gender - men are much more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than women. However when women reach menopause, women's risk of having cardiovascular disease will be the same as men.

Cardiovascular Disease Explained

The effect people will have to their health when they do not lower their cholesterol level would be Cardiovascular disease.

The medical term Cardiovascular disease or also known as CVD is a term used to describes various diseases that effect the heart and blood vessels. The most commonly affected blood vessels are the one that go to the eyes, legs, kidneys, heart or brain. However, as the matter of the fact, any blood vessels in the body can be affected.

Some most common of the cardiovascular disease which cholesterol related are as the following;

• Heart Attack - it happens when the flow of the blood to the heart is interrupted or it is blocked

• Stroke - it happens when the flow of the blood to the brain is interrupted or it is blocked

• Angina (Chest pain) - it happens when the blood vessels to the muscle of the heart become narrow and the heart receives less oxygen than it needs

• Atherosclerosis - it happens when a block of the cholesterol and other fats accumulates within the wall of an artery (a type of blood vessel)