Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Cholesterol In Adolescents - a modern day problem - p2

Cholesterol screening helps to identify the cholesterol and fat levels in the blood. Youngsters and teenagers with ordinary cholesterol level is a thing of the past. Due to the changing way of life and preprocessed food trend, even they have got a high risk to develop heavy levels of cholesterol which also increases the chance of developing heart sicknesses which may affect the arteries and the coronary arteries. The cause of this change is weight issues fast food loaded in fat, junk food diets, inactive lifestyle and high cholesterol level in family history.

Keeping the blood cholesterol levels at normal is an excellent method of avoiding elevated blood pressure and coronary artery diseases. The blood cholesterol level can alter from person to person. Healthy levels of LDL is less than a hundred and 30 mg, HDL is larger than 30 5 mg. If the HDL is less than 35 milligrams then the teen is at a higher possibility of developing heart illnesses. And LDL more than a hundred and 30 mg is threatening.

A high level of LDL cholesterol is a problem in numerous voters of America. And there's a predicted increase in number, the figure's unknown, of teenagers who've got a family history of high cholesterol levels. An teen or a kid who has a parent having exaggerated levels of blood cholesterol and family history of heart illnesses at a young age, should take cholesterol test from the age of 2. Teens who are overweight also should have lipid test along with cholesterol test. The lipid test shows levels of categories of fats in blood like triglycerides, LDL and HDL.