Blood Fat Profiles
Examination of Blood Fat Profiles
Knowing
the health problems caused by
high cholesterol
is not only based solely on the grievances
alone, but also go through the blood lipid profiles. Examination
of the blood lipid profile includes LDL
cholesterol, HDL
cholesterol, triglycerides,
and total cholesterol.
Before the examination was conducted, the patients are advised to fast for 12
hours beforehand. Fasting should be done
to determine the actual levels of
triglycerides. After having a meal usually triglycerides rate would higher
than as fasting.
Examination of Blood Lipids
Examination of blood lipids should be done regularly or periodically. For
people aged over 20 years are encouraged to conduct examinations of this blood fat. If
the result of the examination
in blood fat was
not found any problem, following check-up
can be carried out every five
years. For those who have problems,
so patients need to take some actions
to control cholesterol
back into safe level.
Examination of blood lipids could prevent patients of hypercholesterolemia from the risk of heart attacks. This early inspection
could prevent the emergence of heart attacks later in life. For those who
suffers from coronary heart diseases, vascular diseases, smokers, people with
hypertension, diabetes, and cholesterol familial are highly recommended to do a
blood lipid profile.
The Natures of Fat
Basically,
the nature of the fat is not soluble in water.
In order to be able transported and distributed through the blood vessels, fat (cholesterol and triglycerides) should be tied with protein.
This bond is called a lipoprotein.
LDL cholesterol
is the most widely sort of lipoprotein that
transports cholesterol.
When too much LDL cholesterol in the blood, the risks
of occurrence of plaque in blood vessels will be higher. Due to this nature of LDL cholesterol then it’s called as the bad
cholesterol. Whereas HDL
cholesterol works to bring home cholesterol to
the liver for subsequent processing. If levels of HDL cholesterol is low, there will be
more fat and cholesterol plaque buildup in
blood vessels. Therefore, maintaining HDL cholesterol
levels remain high so that the health condition
would remain stable.
When the level of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) is
high then it will increase the risk of
heart diseases and blood vessel diseases. While HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) will maintain
good health and provide protection
from heart diseases and the vascular diseases.
To diagnose whether someone suffers from hypercholesterolemia or not is by a blood lipid profiling. This examination
includes LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, total cholesterol and triglycerides. Abnormalities in the blood lipid profiles can be:
- Hypercholesterolemia is a high level of total cholesterol in the
blood.
- Hypertriglyceridemia is high levels of triglycerides in the blood.
- The combination of
the two disorders above are hypercholesterolemia
and hypertriglyceridemia.
From the examination of the blood lipid profiles
can categorize a person into normal, high within borderline and high.
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