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Apart from this we are also asked to modify exercise and eating habits. For several people it is like starting to exercise after years of non exercising.
All the people do this correctly and without questioning. Medicines taken for cholesterol and high blood pressure mostly work. Exercise and diet helps to improve health, but even a healthy new habit is very hard to adopt.
Medicines are considered to be an easy option, as it involves very little effort. It is just following the prescription of taking medicines every day. Only when we get the side effects of that medication we think about it.
Let me ask a very basic question? Why blood pressure and cholesterol should in control? Because high blood pressure can lead to damages of tissues in kidney, heart and eyes. And this may lead to heart attack, stroke, blindness if not treated.
The systolic reading of high blood pressure is 140 and diastolic reading is 90. Normally higher blood pressure do not come with any symptoms, so even it has the name of silent killer.
A fatty and waxy substance is called cholesterol. Cholesterol is found in cell walls and tissues all over the body. It is even found in heart, liver, brain, intestines etc. Body needs cholesterol to produce certain hormones and to breakdown fats.
Only a very small amount of cholesterol is needed to do this, however. Too much cholesterol in the body can lead to deposits and buildup in the arteries. One area this causes concern is in the coronary arteries. This can lead to coronary heart disease (CHD).
When not treated this sediment will narrow the artery walls and this will limit the flow of blood to the heart. And this may lead to chest pain and heart attack.
Low-density lipoprotein or LDL (bad cholesterol), high- density lipoprotein, or HDL (good cholesterol) and triglycerides (other fatty substances in the blood) are measured. The amount of cholesterol can be easily measured by a simple blood test.
Other factors that can lead to cholesterol are heredity, obesity, age, stress and usage of alcohol. Many of the studies based on cholesterol shows that diets that contain high saturated fat can lead to high cholesterol.
But it do not lower LDL level of cholesterol and heavy drinking may lead to liver disease and high blood pressure. HDL level of cholesterol can be increased by moderate drinking.
While high blood pressure does not lead to high cholesterol, studies tell us that they are two of the leading controllable risk factors for heart disease, the number one killer in developed countries. These same studies tell us that the chances of someone with high blood pressure and low cholesterol (and vice-versa) are less than 10 percent.
This shouldn't be surprising as they share many of the same risk factors (age, weight, diet). Added to this, it takes different drugs to treat each condition. This often leads to multiple medications and a greatly increased chance for dangers of drug interactions.
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