how to get your cholesterol test?

Before you get a cholesterol test, you will be told by doctor or nurse to fast for at least 9 – 12 hours before the test. You cannot eat any food. If you do eat food within the period, this will affect the accuracy of the cholesterol test. You can only drink plain water that [...]

how often should we test our cholesterol?

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) guidelines, for adults’  age over 20 years old and above should go for cholesterol test for their HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides level at least once in 5 years. However, if you are belongs to below groups you should check more often, suggested once [...]

side effect of cholesterol lowering drugs

If someone that is found high cholesterol level cannot change their habit to eat healthily and lead a healthy life style, they will fail to lower their cholesterol level naturally. If the 6 months of trial, you still cannot lower your cholesterol naturally, your doctor will advise you to start medication to control your cholesterol. [...]

What is stroke?

What is Stroke? When an artery was blocked or broken, then it is most likely your neuro was damage and that is a stroke! When stroke occurs, a person will become disabled. Stroke can cause brain cells to die and this is not something easily be fixed or repaired. One of the most common stroke [...]

Cholesterol fact

Cholesterol Fact Everybody thinks that cholesterol is a bad thing inside our body. This is general perception that most people have. But, they don’t really know the true fact of cholesterol. If it is purely a bad thing, then why our liver can produce cholesterol for our body? In fact, cholesterol is essential to our [...]

Cholesterol–heart attack causes?

When we talk about high cholesterol level, most of the time it is due to  low density lipoprotein (LDL ) cholesterol is high which cause the overall cholesterol number is high. But why many health specialists have keep warning us that high cholesterol level will expose us to the high risk of getting heart attack, [...]

cholesterol numbers

What are the healthy Cholesterol numbers for us? Every one is talking about high cholesterol level. Then what cholesterol number is considered high and what number is acceptable? Here, I will brief about the common standard of the range of cholesterol we should have. When you do body medical test for cholesterol level, the cholesterol [...]