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High Cholesterol Symptoms

What are the causes of high cholesterol symptoms? Can anything be done to detect them? The answer to this may come as a surprise to you. For the most part, there are no high cholesterol symptoms that are discovered until some great health problem arises. This is typically manifested in some form of the deadly killer, "cardiovascular disease."

Cardiovascular or heart disease is a major problem that kills millions of people annually. The World Health Organization has determined that it is responsible for the deaths of 12 million people every year across the globe. Furthermore, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for over 50% of all deaths in many developed countries. It also kills millions of those that live in low income or underdeveloped countries, as well.

There are approximately 330 million people in the United States and 60 million of them have some form of cardiovascular disease. The list includes a whole host of diseases; atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, hypertension, aneurysms, etc. are just a few. Unfortunately, many people walk around carrying out their daily activities without even knowing that they have some form of cardiovascular disease until the results are catastrophically dangerous.

Atherosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries, is the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. Even though too much cholesterol is one of the major causes of this deadly disease, there are really no

symptoms of high cholesterol levels until the disease has done great harm. Smoking and high blood pressure, additionally, are other causes causes of atherosclerosis.

Some people have had high cholesterol in their bloodstream and are not aware of it for lengthy periods. By the time most people realize that they have one of these maladies serious damage can be done to the body. What can you do to prevent this from happening?

Lipoprotein Analysis

Since you cannot feel any

high cholesterol symptoms until there are major health problems, you must take regular tests to determine whether you have normal cholesterol levels or not. This is a blood test that measures your total cholesterol, and the ratio/levels of LDL, HDL, VLDL, and triglycerides. This test is called a lipoprotein analysis.

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that beginning at the age of 20, you should have a lipoprotein analysis administered once every five years. This will ensure that your levels are normal or not. If the test is done on a regular basis, there should be no worry. Hence, it doesn't matter about being concerned of any high cholesterol symptoms.

If the test illustrates higher than normal cholesterol levels, you should properly plan to combat this unhealthy situation immediately. If you ignore it, then you put yourself in an untenable position by risking some sort of developing heart disease which can ultimately result in death.

There are many things that you can do to restore normal cholesterol levels. Exercise more often, eat foods that lower cholesterol levels, stop smoking, stay away from saturated fats, or even consider medication if necessary. Pharmaceuticals should be the last resort, but, at times, they are necessary when one's high cholesterol symptoms manifest in deadly disease.

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