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Your cholesterol matters, what your numbers mean and how you can improve them, Richard Furman, MD, FACS

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Your cholesterol matters, what your numbers mean and how you can improve them, Richard Furman, MD, FACS

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Your cholesterol matters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Richard Furman, MD, FACS

Sub title

what your numbers mean and how you can improve them

Summary

FAMILY & HEALTH. When it comes to our health, what we don't know can harm us most. Eighty-five percent of people over the age of fifty have significant blockage in the arteries of their hearts without any symptoms. Two-thirds of the time, the initial symptom is a full-blown heart attack. Doctors tell patients to watch their diet, get regular exercise, and lose weight--but they also increasingly prescribe "cholesterol lowering" drugs that patients will take every day for the rest of their lives. The problem is that a daily pill only addresses one small part of the cholesterol problem. Dr. Furman wants readers to understand what their cholesterol numbers mean, how best to change levels of both the "lethal" LDL cholesterol and "hero" HDL cholesterol, and how to adjust their lifestyles in order to stay off of expensive medications that don't address the whole problem (and often have negative health-impacting side effects)

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