Becky Captain is a nurse practitioner in preventive cardiology. Becky answers the questions: what is cholesterol? What is HDL and LDL cholesterol? What is good and bad cholesterol? What should…
Cholesterol is a lipid (fatty substance) that circulates in your blood. Your body needs cholesterol to function properly. It’s needed to maintain healthy cell walls and to produce vitamin D, certain…
Even if you have high cholesterol levels you will generally continue to feel quite well. You may be quite unaware that you are at risk from heart disease as generally there…
Hyperlipidemia, or high cholesterol in common language, refers to the condition that presents in the blood serum lipid profile as cholesterol levels of more than 240 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter).
A cholesterol level…
Cholesterol is a substance that is similar to fat. It can be found in the cell membranes of all body tissues and is transported through the blood plasma. There is…