High cholesterol

CHOLESTEROL – is a lipoid which on 2/3 is produced by liver, and on the remained third is received from food. It serves as one of the basic building materials of an organism, being a part of cell walls, neural tissue, and also hormones and vitamin D. Once you slightly exceed the normal level the formed surpluses of cholesterol start damaging vascular walls —aorta and arteries feeding heart and brain, abdominal cavity’s organs, kidneys and feet.  Fatty stripes gradually thicken; turn to plaques, narrowing arteries.  Over time cholesteric plaque calcifies, inflames, sometimes breaks apart, and forms a clot.  When condensing and expanding, this clot corks a vessel off.  Thrombosis’s results are — heart attack, stroke, partial heart’s or brain’s necrosis.
Cholesterol lowering medicines:

• Altocor ($1.07 per pill) is a cholesterol-lowering medication that blocks the production of cholesterol (a type of fat) in the body
• Lipitor - $1.17 per pill. Lipitor reduces low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and total cholesterol in the blood.
• Mevacor - $0.65 per pill. Mevacor is used, along with diet, to lower cholesterol levels in people with primary hypercholesterolemia (too much cholesterol in the bloodstream).
• Vytorin - $2.08 per pill. Vytorin reduces the amount of cholesterol (a type of fat) absorbed by the body and block the production of cholesterol in the body.
• more medicaments…