ama guidelines for ldl and hdl

QUESTION: What are ama guidelines for ldl and hdl? How to deal with these problems according to ama?


ANSWER: Hi,

American Medical Association (AMA) is executing a lot of studies related with the cholesterol amount in the organism.

For that reason AMA is publishing every year the results of those studies and a list of food that are considered good for people at very high, high and low risk for cardio-vascular diseases.

As you probably know, changes in the lipid metabolism and in the HDL/LDL ratio increase or reduce the risk of developing atherosclerosis and the risk of cardio-vascular diseases (CVDs) like myocardial infarction and stroke.

The major aim of AMA guidelines for HDL and LDL is to teach the doctors to define the risk for CVDs of their patients and to reduce this risk.

According to the latest publication of AMA, people with very high risk for CVDs have to maintain the cholesterol amount under 70 mg/dl.

Keeping the cholesterol at this level can stop the development of atherosclerosis and a result like this can be achieved with diet.

This publication does contain exact information about the foods which are supposed to be excluded from the meals and those which are allowed.

On the other hand, patients with high risk of CVDs have to maintain their cholesterol level under 100mg/dl.

Meals, which are containing pork meat and other meats rich in fats have to exclude from the diet of patients at high and very high risk of CVDs because this type of meat increase the amount of LDL in the organism, leading to the aggravation of the atherosclerotic plaque.

Besides this, fried food are also forbidden, because they are increasing the LDL amount in the organism too.

Guidelines like this are very useful not only for the doctor but even for the patients, because it provides them the opportunity to live normal live, without being afraid of myocardial infarction or stroke.

Dr.Alba