How do you know the limits of cholesterol that you have to know? if you are 20 years old and above it could be better starting to examine your content cholesterol and then you have making check-up at least ones per year.
To undersatand how much minimum to have saved result, hereby I enclosed how to undersatnd it; (this numbers contents to mg per desylitre). This numbers are for general result of cholesterol (cholesterol total).
Less than 200 Normal
200-239 Be carefull
240 and above Dangerous
But even you have a normal cholesterol you have to continue to making chek-up regularly including the contents of HDL (High Density Lipoprotein) which it is a good cholesterol, because the high level content of HDL will help to neutralize the total cholesterol.
Be aware for HDL under 35 means that is under of standard that you must have. Simple examples to upgrade it are making diet, no smoking, making sports and eating sugar free dishes.
So, how about LDL? the bad cholesterol? it will be better if you have under 130.
Finally, to help you to understand better with all the numbers above, your doctor will saying that if you have ratio 35 : 1 ( Total cholesterol : HDL ) that means you are ok.
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