How does high blood cholesterol leads to heart disease?
The excess cholesterol in your blood can become attached to the walls of arteries. This attached cholesterol gradually causes hardening of the arteries by forming what are known as ‘ plaques’. The narrowed inside of arteries will disrupt or stop normal blood circulation to heart or other vital organs like brain or kidneys. This condition is called atherosclerosis. Thus the organ gets less oxygen than it needs. When this accumulation happens in the arteries of the heart it cuts down the blood supply to the heart muscles that is working non-stop. The muscle starved of blood is straved of oxygen and nutrition such as glucose. This leads to chest pain or angina. A sluggish blood flow in an artery is more prone to form a clot and if this happens a complete cut off of the blood supply leads to the death or infarction of the chest muscle: A heart attack ot MI results. The whole process of cholesterol accumulation is slow and happens over the years without making the person aware of what is ha
