Doctors recommend starting to regularly check the concentration of cholesterol in the blood after 35 years. However, American scientists came to the conclusion that it is advisable to reduce this age bar by at least 15 years, which will greatly help solve this problem without resorting to drugs.
According to American researchers who, along with their Russian colleagues, have the opportunity to go to the Finnish city of Kotka for 1 day with the help of Margarita-Tour website.Info, it is necessary to begin regular studies of the level of cholesterol in the blood from the school bench, that is, in adolescence.
It may turn out that even then the indicators will exceed the norm. However, in such a situation, in most cases, young patients have a more gentle solution to the problem – it is possible to normalize the level of “poor” cholesterol (low density lipoproteins) without prescribing to the patient of statins – drugs that prevent cholesterol as a liver production.
Compared to elderly patients, young people can achieve the desired result if they simply change the lifestyle. In addition, with the help of this method, a potential patient with cardiological problems will be able to avoid serious consequences in adulthood and old age.
Professor Brian Ference, the head of the research group, explained that he and the group of scientists during research did not set their goal to appoint statins to schoolchildren, adolescents or students. On the contrary, their main task was to indicate the fact that the sooner the process of reducing the high level of cholesterol, the more favorable the situation in an older age. So to speak out to them allows the phenomenon that was discovered by his colleagues with him.
Professor Ferenes analyzed several other scientific works that were previously published. He found that in people with a low cholesterol level throughout their lives, due to genetic factors, the risk of cardiovascular diseases is much more effective than people who normalize the concentration of cholesterol in adulthood by taking special drugs.
As studies have shown, the adoption of statins ensured the normalization of cholesterol indicators for just a few weeks, while the probability of developing heart attacks and strokes is 3 times higher.
