Causes of Cholesterol

You’re worried about having high cholesterol and you want to change your diet and your life style so that the risk will go down. 
Sadly, you cannot change everything because there are some uncontrollable risk factors that remain in play. 
Every diagnosis and treatment has uncontrollable risk factors, and the risk factors for high cholesterol is no exception. (…)

What Factors Contribute to High Cholesterol?
When worried about cholesterol you have to worry about several factors. (…)

Heredity plays a role in high cholesterol.  Your genes can influence your LDL by affecting how fast it is made and removed from your blood.  There is one particular form of inherited high cholesterol that will often lead to early heart disease.  It is called familial “hypercholesterolemia” and can play a role in 1 of 500 people. (…)