Cholesterol Workshop

Among cases of cardiovascular disease, 95 percent stem from atherosclerosis (a condition in which cholesterol in the blood penetrates and collects in artery walls). This creates the hard deposits from which atherosclerosis gets its name, and ultimately grows into the arterial lumen restricting blood flow to the heart and culminating to angina and myocardial infarction.

Cardiovascular disease is strongly linked to hypercholesterolemia, in which the concentration of cholesterol in the blood exceeds the body's physiological requirement for the synthesis of steroid hormones, cell membranes, and other components.

Program Objectives

• Provide patients with easy access to cholesterol information
   
• Increase patient understanding of high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease as it pertains to chronic diseases

I. Workshop - High Cholesterol Overview

a. What is cholesterol?
b. Who develops cholesterol problems?
c. What is high cholesterol?
d. What are LDL and HDL cholesterol and lipoproteins?
e. What causes high cholesterol?
f. Will I have symptoms of high cholesterol?
g. How will a health professional diagnose my cholesterol?
h. How can I lower my cholesterol?
i. What lifestyle changes will I have to make?
j. Risk factors you can control
k. Risk factors you cannot control
l. Living with high cholesterol

 

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