Why do you find that thin friends have high cholesterol?

The body is not fat, and the diet and life are healthy, but the cholesterol is still high, which may be due to metabolic problems in the body. For example, children with rare coronary heart disease, due to congenital genetic factors, lack of cholesterol transporter, resulting in normal excretion of cholesterol.

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It is suggested that friends who still can't reduce their fat after improving their lifestyle should seek professional doctor's assessment. If it is because of lipid metabolism problems, drug control may be needed.

What are the consequences of high cholesterol

It is said that high cholesterol is not good, but do you know what is wrong? Cholesterol is an indispensable component of human body. It is an important component of cell membrane and the raw material for making cell membrane, but cholesterol is also good or bad.

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High density lipoprotein cholesterol is "good" cholesterol. "Good" cholesterol acts as a "scavenger" and transports excess cholesterol back to the liver, thus avoiding the deposition of cholesterol on the arterial wall and the formation of plaque, and reducing the risk of arteriosclerosis.

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Low density lipoprotein cholesterol is "bad" cholesterol. When the level of "bad" cholesterol in blood circulation rises, excess cholesterol will remain on the blood vessel wall, forming sticky atherosclerotic plaques. Atherosclerosis easily leads to blood flow stagnation or thrombosis, which in turn leads to angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and stroke.

Causes of harmful cholesterol increase

In order to avoid high bad cholesterol, we must know that it is mainly increased by the following points:

(1) Eat a lot of animal foods (the animal foods with the highest cholesterol content are: animal viscera, seafood, egg yolk, etc. ), full-fat dairy products (such as full-fat milk, cream, cheese, butter, ice cream), some oils, and foods processed from these things, such as biscuits, cakes, pies, muffins, etc.

(2) Eat foods containing trans fats. Most high-fat foods are artificial, not natural.

(3) smoking.

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(4) Overweight and obesity.

(5) age. The harmful cholesterol levels of both men and women increase with age. After menopause, the level of bad cholesterol in women increased significantly.

(6) lack of exercise. A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of weight and bad cholesterol levels.

(7) disease. Hypothyroidism and nephrotic syndrome are two common diseases that lead to the increase of bad cholesterol level.

(8) Genetic factors.