High cholesterol is insidious: You can’t see it, and you usually can’t feel it until it reaches a point where your high cholesterol numbers start impacting some other aspect of your health. Changes to your diet and getting regular exercise are often the first two steps to lowering total cholesterol and LDL (a.k.a. “bad”) cholesterol readings. Medication can also help, but you need to be sure the treatment your doctor puts you on is really working.
Why? Because left unchecked, high cholesterol can place your health in serious jeopardy over time. Heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure are just some of the complications you may face unless your high cholesterol is effectively managed. If you’re worried you might not be managing your cholesterol as well as you should or could, take the quiz here to gain a better understanding of the risks to your overall health. HealthCentral has implemented policies and procedures designed to safeguard and protect the personal information of its users, as further described in our Privacy Policy.
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