Effects Of High Cholesterol On The Body

Effects Of High Cholesterol On The Body | High cholesterol is often nicknamed ' silent killer ' because often there are no symptoms but fatal. But in some cases, high cholesterol also can show symptoms in the body. What's it?

"Most often without symptoms, but there are also some of the symptoms in a can," explains Dr. Bahdar t. Johan, SpPD.

A person is said to have normal cholesterol levels if the size is 160-200 mg, whereas the entry of dangerous condition if it is above 240 mg. Here are some of the most frequently found symptoms of the patient of high cholesterol include:

1. A sense of weight in the neck until the soreness in the shoulder

Most people feel the weight in the head and achy as early symptoms. This symptom appears as a result of lack of oxygen.

"That often is usually heavy in the head but the pain is not sharp, just heavy," explains Dr. Bahdar.

2. Quick sleepy

"Especially when already high simply applied once, e.g. triglycerides that are normally under 200 mg or 150 mg, there are up to 600 or 700 mg that normally default drowsiness," explains Dr. Bahdar.

This usually happens because of a lack of intake of oxygen to the brain due to a narrowing of the blood vessels due to fat deposits due to cholesterol.

3. Tingling

"Sometimes a tingling can also be due to blood a bit lumpy," explains Dr. Bahdar.

High cholesterol levels can cause blood flow to be condensed so that the oxygen becomes reduced.

4. Fat deposits above the eyelids

"Clinically there are several things that can be used as initial instructions a person has high cholesterol, that is, the presence of fat deposits above the eyelids. Usually, this heap contains levels of triglyceride (fatty acid molecules). But this only happens in a small percentage of people, "explains Dr. Dante Saksono H, SpPD, PhD

5. It is easily tired

When the plaque formed in the walls of arteries, can cause conditions such as atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease (PJK) and coronary microvascular disease or coronary microvascular disease (CMD). Conditions such as this are what causes the body feels tired easily.

6. Frequent headaches

This is because high cholesterol in the blood triggered hoarding plaques-plaque in arteries causing the occurrence of atherosclerosis. This condition makes the arteries will narrow and makes the blood flow to the head and brain are reduced, thus causing the pain in the head.

7. Swollen Leg

The foot is the most distant body organs from a heart. When the blood vessels are narrowed and reduced oxygen intake, then, of course, the least blood is getting away. This eventually causes the foot looks swell. This condition is almost the same as the conditions when you too long sits during the trip, especially in economy class.