Risk Factors For High Cholesterol That You Cannot Do Anything About

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.

The uncontrollable risk factors for high cholesterol are heredity, age, and gender. 

If you have all three stacked against you, you really have to watch what you eat and how you manage the high cholesterol once it is diagnosed. Though most high cholesterol is contributed to eating fatty foods, not eating enough healthy foods, not exercising enough, and not maintaining a healthy life style, you can still get high cholesterol if you are doing all the right things. 

Some people can have a tub of butter for breakfast and a pound of pork fat for dinner and still have healthy cholesterol levels.  It is according to your metabolism and how your body secretes the LCL and HCL cholesterol from your liver.  These people are very lucky.  For the rest of us we have to deal with the cards that we are given and do all we can to bring cholesterol levels down to a low risk level.
Age is a factor that you cannot change when dealing with high cholesterol.  Your chance of having high cholesterol increases with age.  After the age of twenty, your body looses some of its ability to get rid of excess cholesterol and plagues starts to build around the inside walls of arteries and blood vessels. Even if you are a child, your diet or disposition of high cholesterol will begin to manifest itself within your veins.  As you get older, the thickness of this plague will cause the blood vessels to close in causing high blood pressure and other cardiac diseases.  The older you get, the more chance you will have for a stroke or a heart attack.

Gender also is a risk factor that you cannot change.  Your gender determines the age in which you are at most risk for developing high cholesterol.  Most of the time, men develop high cholesterol levels faster than women.  Before menopause, women have high HDL, good cholesterol levels, and have a less chance of stroke or heart attack than men who start cholesterol build up after age twenty.  After menopause the hormone levels change in women and the HDL levels are decreased and the LDL, bad cholesterol levels are increased.

Heredity is a risk factor that nobody can change.  You can not change who your parents were and high cholesterol seems to runs in families.  The risk of developing high cholesterol is passed down from one generation to the next.  If your parents or grandparents have high cholesterol, it is a good chance that you will also be afflicted by  it.  Go to the doctor and have yourself checked.  Even if you eat right and exercise, the genetic disposition of high cholesterol can have adverse affects on your life.  You may have high cholesterol now and not even know it.  If you have all three non-changeable risk factors; you are a man, you are middle aged or older, and you have had high cholesterol in your immediate family, you are in a high risk category.  Get your levels checked and talk to your doctor about what your can do to lower that cholesterol level as soon as you can.  Your life and your family’s happiness and well being depend on it.