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The Risk Factors for Heart Attack
posted by Mel, selected from Caring.com Jul 1, 2009 7:03 am
By Stephanie Trelogan, Caring.com
Risk factors that CAN be treated, controlled, or modified
- High blood cholesterol. As blood cholesterol rises, so does the risk of coronary artery disease. So the goal is to keep total blood cholesterol levels as low as possible, according to the American Heart Association (AMA). Although many physicians maintain that LDL is a more effective gauge of risk than total (HDL plus LDL) blood cholesterol, the AMA offers these guidelines for blood cholesterol levels:
- Total blood cholesterol. Everyone should try to keep their levels below 200 milligrams/deciliter (mg/dL).
- HDL (”good”) blood cholesterol. Women should try to have levels of 50 mg/dL or higher. Men should aim for 40 mg/dL or higher.
- LDL (”bad”) blood cholesterol. Optimal LDL cholesterol levels vary according to your overall risk of heart attack, but in general, the lower the LDL level, the lower your risk. Here’s how the AMA ranks the various levels of LDL:
Less than 100 mg/dL: Optimal
100 to 129 mg/dL: Near optimal/above optimal
130 to 159 mg/dL: Borderline high
160 to 189 mg/dL: High
190 mg/dL and above: Very high
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add your comment »I tried to follow a suggestion in another article to print the article by clicking thru its 13 PAGES. (13 pages. WHY?!) After FINALLY getting thru to the 13th page, the Print button REFUSED to work. Total waste of time. So any good to come from the article was lost to me. I see no sense in downloading a whole website 13 TIMES just to read an article. Please condense articles to no more than a few pages. Then maybe more peope will be inclined (and ABLE) to READ THEM! Thanks for the rant space. (Also, what's the point of flagging a commment as inappropriate? I never received a response. I only flagged the comment (not on this article) because the commenter THREATENED ANOTHER PERSON'S LIFE.)
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Sorry, about to rant, feel free to skip over this post, but I gotta get this one out. I'm not even going to read this article. 5 PAGES? Seriously? What is it...one paragraph per page? Scrolling through 5 pags to get information that could easily be summed up in 1 page is a dumb idea. Makes it harder to read, and really sucks for those of us with slow connections. It would take me like 20 minutes to read this 5 minute article. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if it fits on one page, PUT IT ON ONE PAGE!! Then maybe more people would read it.
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Boycott the click through multiple pages!!!!!
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I wish these one size fits all answers would realize there are some of us who fit a different mold and no one ever writes about this sort of combination: HDL over 100 and that boosts our overall cholesterol numbers to 250. I have one doctor saying that the HDL trumps high cardio CRP, lipo A, fibrinogen, and LDL numbers. (BTW regular CRP only slightly elevated, blood sugar fine, triglicerides fine, blood pressure low, gene factor - the good one). Metabolism Very slow based on VO2 test (-36%), so overweight. The other doctor wants me taking aspirin, niaspan, and red rice yeast extract. What's the answer since they don't agree and nobody ever writes about this?
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If we have to continue clicking through page after page just to read a few words, I will definitely cancel my subscription to this site.
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5 pages this time. Too many. I won't read that many. I've noticed that Mel uses the multiple page format a lot. Is there any particular reason?
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I think not only is dangerous for people who smoke it is also dangerous to people when they are around smokers on a constant basis.
I know that I became deaf because of my father and my ex-husband smoking around me on a constant basis secondary smoke can kill everyone around and that is something nobody thought about.
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There we go again, a click through article! Why, oh why ? Because you want us to see those adds, which we never look at anyway ? Sometimes it makes me feel like cancelling my subscription to your site.
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