How Can Cholesterol Management Help Prevent Heart Disease in Women?

" Low density lipoprotein. Or LDL is known as bad cholesterol. You can clog the arteries and cause life threatening consequences. A heart attack or stroke. But monitoring your levels and eating -- low in greatly reduce your risk of developing heart and other complications. And if you already have heart to -- especially important to weaker levels in check to prevent further damage to your heart."

" They target for LDL cholesterol. Has changed that went out and medical schools that talk immediately targets for the total cholesterol was under 300. -- now the target is under 200."

" Often asked me what a righty. Strolled. And really the target value for your bad cholesterol LDL depends on who you are and what you do are. Because. If you're a higher risk. If you had documented coronary. You're kind of I -- if you had -- and you plan if you had to ease of your peripheral arteries is your diabetic and -- diabetic iris. Diabetic woman has the same risk of having a heart attack alone during our. Or if you chronic kidney. You are higher risk. And you or bad cholesterol LDL should be at least lower than a hundred. -- recommendations. Are lower and --"

" Patience and a benefit too with those lower. Old real close -- numbers. Often there. Are cholesterol number that is to blow. Some people steal it that when you go below forty for the old real close stroll into the -- that's a bullet."

" In Europe in the immediate risk if you happened number of risk factors of heart disease high blood pressure obesity metabolic syndrome. Has only an activity cigarette smoking Probably the goal your cholesterol should be somewhere between. A hundred at a 130. For the bad cholesterol LDL. And if you had a huge risk factors Perhaps a 13200. And it is reasonable. But more and more of the research studies are showing that lower."