The earlier you control cholesterol levels, the better

international study found that lowering non-HDL cholesterol levels reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease, and that the earlier the intervention, the more effective it beed.
levels of non-HDL cholesterol in the blood are considered risk factors for cardiovascular disease and play an important role in predicting a person's risk of cardiovascular disease.
team, led by the Heart and Vascular Centre at the University of Hamburg in Germany, collected data on about 400,000 people from 38 related studies in Europe, Australia and North America. The median age of the subjects was 51 years, and none of them had cardiovascular disease at the beginning of the study. The median time they were followed was 13.5 years, with the longest being 43.6 years. Based on how these people later developed cardiovascular disease, the researchers developed an assessment model of the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease.
The study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, showed that the lower the level of non-HDL cholesterol in a person's blood, the lower the risk of cardiovascular disease within 30 years, especially if the value was less than 2.6 millimoles per litre. People with high levels of non-HDL cholesterol, if they can halve this number, have a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease by the age of 75, and the earlier they halve, the more significant the effect.
For example, men under the age of 45 have a 29 percent risk of cardiovascular disease if their original non-HDL cholesterol levels were 3.7 to 4.8 millimoles per liter, and a 6 percent risk if non-HDL cholesterol levels were halved.
, of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, said the study was the first to estimate the risk over 30 years and that the results could help people better prevent cardiovascular disease. (Source: Xinhua.
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