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What are the effects of high cholesterol?

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by Answerbag Staff on October 20th, 2009

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    Hayley Harrison Oct 20th, 2009 Cholesterol is a substance that occurs naturally in your body and is an important building block for cells, according to the Mayo Clinic. However, cholesterol is also present in some foods you eat, which can lead to excessive levels of cholesterol in your body.

    Significance

    Excess cholesterol collects within your arteries and veins, the blood vessels that carry blood throughout the body. This causes the blood vessels to harden and become clogged, leading to a number of possible negative effects, according to NetDoctor.com.

    Legs

    According to the American Heart Association, about 8 million Americans suffer from peripheral artery disease, a condition frequently caused by the blockage of arteries in the legs due to high cholesterol. PAD causes leg pain during exercise or activity, slow healing time of wounds or cuts on your legs and feet and coldness of your lower extremities.

    Brain

    In the brain, cholesterol blockage in a blood vessel often leads to the formation of a blood clot or a ball of hardened blood cells. When a clot cuts off blood supply to the brain or ruptures and bleeds, the end result is a stroke.

    Heart

    A narrowing of arteries in your heart due to cholesterol deposits reduces blood flow to the organ. This can result in angina, chest pain or heart attacks.

    Kidneys

    High cholesterol levels increase your risk of developing kidney disease, according to Johns Hopkins University. This is most likely due to the blockage of arteries that carry oxygenated blood to the kidneys.

    Mesenteric Ischemia

    Hardening of the arteries due to high cholesterol levels also poses a risk for mesenteric ischemia or reducing blood flow to your digestive tract, according to VascularWeb. This causes chronic diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, flatulence and diarrhea.

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    Mayo Clinic: High Cholesterol

    UK NetDoctor: High Cholesterol

    American Heart Association: PAD

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    Mick24 Dec 17th, 2009 One might say that many people go to their local doctor in search of reasons to have a day off work. They would usually blame this on high cholesterol because as we know, most people are rather "larger" now then some years ago due to the popular belief the fast food chain is more accessible and easy to come by.

    However true this may be, it overloads the local bulk billing doctors with people who arnt even sick, and in turn this causes a shortage of available doctors for those who actually are in need of real assistance.

    so who do we blame? well, usually its the government. The government consists of high bread winners who laze aboutin their chairs throwing paper planes accross a room while the rest of us try to see some light on things like global warming.

    We must ask ourselves.. Global Warming, why do we not simply stop creating petrol vehichles, and start creating electric vehichles?? theres 70% of all polution which rises and kills our atmosphere solved in one simple effective way.

    Back to my point though however on cholesterol, if we started creating electric cars only, the government would save 13 billion dollars on trying to solve global warming in which that money could be used to hire more doctors so that those who arnt sick can go see them for a medical cert to have the day off stating that they simply sweat allot from the intesnse heat outside purely to have a day off to stay at home wih the aircon on playing the PS3 like i did just the other day.

    Cheers

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