Atherosclerotic plaque is the main cause of coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction,and cholesterol is the raw material for the formation of arterial plaque. The higher the cholesterol, the easier it is to form plaques.But different people have different levels of relatively safe cholesterol.If someone is younger, non-smoking, non-obese, his parents do not have cardiovascular disease, hypertension or diabetes, the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in the future is low, as long as his LDL cholesterol does not exceed 3.4 mmol/L.If the patient has coronary heart disease, or he has hypertension and diabetes at the same time,he need to be treated if LDL cholesterol exceeds 1.8 mmol/L.LDL cholesterol level should not exceed 2.6 mmol/L for diabetes patients. Patients, who are diagnosed with coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction,should take statin lipid-lowering drugs no matter what the cholesterol test results are.
Triglyceride is also important blood lipid parameter.The normal value of this index is set below 1.7 mmol/L in most hospital test sheet, while exceeding this figure does not mean the need for drug therapy.If triglyceride does not exceed 2.26 mmol/L, there is no need to take lipid-lowering drugs in general.Indexes can completely return to normal through a reasonable diet, increase exercise, weight loss and limiting alcohol consumption and so on,and drug therapy should be considered only when indexes are significantly higher.
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