Thanks for visiting Cholesterol Test Kit Guide. My interest is this subject arises from my own experiences – my father suffered a heart attack for no immediately apparent reason (he was fit, had a healthy diet, didn’t smoke etc). When the hospital set about finding what might have caused this they tested his cholesterol, amongst other things, and found it to be unusually high.
This triggered an alert for those related to him to also go get their cholesterol tested and, lo and behold, mine was also extremely high (9.0 mmol compared to a recommended level of 4.5 mmol). It turned out that I had inherited a defective chromosome passed from my father which resulted in a condition called familial-hypercholesterolemia.
Despite being relatively young, fit (I play a lot of tennis), eating a low fat diet (more to keep my weight down than any other reason) and not indulging in other “risk factors” my liver was simply unable to properly process cholesterol.
Now, while I was in many respects immensely pleased to have been alerted to this years before my own impending heart attack would have eventually done the job for me, I wasn’t quite expecting a lifetime subscription to The Program. Put simply, medical researchers in this area thought I would make an excellent subject for study, and so I have since become an unwitting amateur expert where cholesterol, its causes and treatements are concerned.
I hope you find the material on this site interesting and informative – please feel free to either contact me or leave a comment on any of the articles if you would like to share your own opinions or experiences.
Elaine