Cholesterol medicine lowers bad cholesterol (LDH) which can effectively lower your risk of getting heart disease or a stroke. Changes in diet and starting cardio exercises, as well as quitting smoking and other bad habits should be the first option that is used to lower cholesterol, but when that does not work it is time to consider medications.
Even when you are taking cholesterol medicine, it is very important to eat a healthy diet and exercise. If you are eating a healthy diet and are exercising this will facilitate the medicine to be more effective. Eat a healthy diet low in fat with low fat meats, fruits, and vegetables. Large amounts of fat in your diet can be detrimental to your health. This is because it raises your blood cholesterol levels that can add to heart attack or a stroke.
Statins are one of the most effective and widely used medicines to treat high cholesterol. Statins have been shown to reduce the risk for heart attack, stroke, and death in people who are at high risk of a heart attack or stroke. Statins do this by lowering the amount of cholesterol that the liver makes. This has been very effective for most people.
There are many times that a person needs to take more than one medication or a combination medication like a statin combination medication. Some of these can lower the cholesterol that you're liver produces and it also affects how your body absorbs cholesterol, others can lower the cholesterol amounts that your liver creates, and lowers your blood pressure as well, so that you do not have to take a low blood pressure med as well. There are medications that can raise good cholesterol (HDL) and lower bad cholesterol (LDL).
There are also medications that can lower the absorption of cholesterol by the body, and some can affect how your body removes cholesterol. There are a vast amount of medications that can be used for lowering cholesterol. Your doctor will decide which is best for you by looking at your family history, your blood cholesterol levels, and whether diet and exercise as well as other life style changes have not worked.
It is important to note that some of these medications can have side effects that may be mild to severe depending on the medications. Be sure you know what the side effects for your particular medication are. These medications are a good advance in the in the medical world.
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