What is the heart attack risk with cholesterol level below 150?

QUESTION: What is the heart attack risk with cholesterol level below 150?


ANSWER: Hi,

It is good that you are taking care of your health and especially of the condition of your cardio-vascular system, but you have to know that the calculation of the heart attack risk is very difficult process, which requires several parameters.

The exact cholesterol level is one of them, but you haven΄t mentioned parameters like your blood pressure values, being smoker, being diabetic, being overweight and your daily physical activity, which is still important.

However, a value of 150mg/dl of bad cholesterol is not that bad, but it is borderline high, which means that you have to take precautions.

Anyways, I΄m not able to estimate the exact heart attack risk of yours, but you can do it by your own. If you enter the AHA (American Heart Association) web site, you will find a calculator for the heart attack risk. In this calculator you have to fill all the parameters, which were mentioned above.

The calculator will tell you the exact heart attack risk of yours, but you have to know that sometimes the calculated risk doesn΄t correlate with the real one.

However, if you still want to protect your health and to prevent the heart attack development, there are few things which you can do about it.

First of all you have to start fallowing a diet, which is composed by meals low in fats, cholesterol and carbs.

The second thing is to start running for about 30-40 minutes in the morning or in the evening. This will improve the function of your cardio-vascular system.

Other very important thing is to achieve better control of your blood pressure and blood glucose, in purpose to maintain them in normal values.

Following these steps will help you lose weight, which will exclude one other risk factor - being overweight.

The last thing is to quit smoking.

I understand that it is hard to follow all these steps, but you are doing this for your health and the health is the most important thing in the human΄s life.

Hope it helped!


Dr.Alba