NHLBI Educational Materials Catalog: 'Live Healthier, Live Longer: Lowering Cholesterol for the Person with Heart Disease'

Live Healthier, Live Longer: Lowering Cholesterol for the Person with Heart Disease

It’s never too late to help your heart. If you have coronary heart disease, this handbook is designed to help you lower your blood cholesterol level to reduce your risk of a future heart attack and prolong your life. Learn the difference between LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides; the role of each in heart disease; and the importance of lowering LDL-cholesterol to a level of 100 or less. Understand how diet and lifestyle changes, together with medications if prescribed, can improve your cholesterol and reduce your heart disease risk. Discover many practical hints about choosing foods low in saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol and physical activity and weight control-all of which may help you live a healthier life. 34 pages. 4.

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7/22/2002 3:13:31 PM VERY INFORMATIVE, FACTS ARE GREAT TO KNOW Very informatve, enjoy reading healthy tips for protecting the heart and cholesterols effect on the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle, this will save many lives this information. thanks a million!

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