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Anyone who eats a lot of high-fat and sugary food, especially combined with unfavorable genes, will sooner or later have a problem with the so-called fat metabolism. “The excess fat supplied can no longer be processed and dissolved in the blood, which can lead to atherosclerosis. The components of the fat are deposited in the arteries (vessels) and narrowing occurs,” explains Raphael Sieghartsleitner, assistant doctor at the Internal Medicine Department Medicine at the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Clinic in Kirchdorf and member of the Curia of the employed doctors in the Medical Association for Upper Austria.
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The problem with hyperlipidemia is that you can live with it for many years without noticing anything. This condition can result in serious illnesses such as stroke, heart attack or pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas. Organs are also affected and permanently damaged by the resulting circulatory disorders. “Hyperlipidemia has no symptoms until irreparable damage has already been done – for example, in the event of a heart attack.”
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Therefore, you should have your blood lipids checked at least once, but even better regularly. This is best done during a health examination by your family doctor or during a laboratory examination by a specialist in internal medicine. If the values are too high, further therapeutic measures are taken to ensure that serious illnesses do not occur.
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If your values are good or just good, you should definitely take preventive action with exercise and a balanced, low-fat, reduced-sugar diet.
Ideally, you don’t fight against high blood lipid levels, but rather prevent them in good time. “Please also note that the possibility of a lipid metabolism disease increases with increasing age. From the age of 30, the risk of this increases continuously. This results in a delayed increased risk of serious illnesses such as a heart attack or stroke from the age of 45.”
Therefore, all women and men should have their blood lipid levels checked regularly in young adulthood and maintain a healthy lifestyle. “Intervening early on blood lipids is the best precaution for healthy aging,” advises Sieghartsleitner.
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