What Can High Cholesterol Cause?
• Did you know that the link between high cholesterol and obesity is significant. Therefore, losing weight can mean substantially lower cholesterol. Are you over weight and would you like to lose weight and have good cholesterol levels? • Lower Cholesterol Necessary to Protect Vision. Type I diabetics need to lower cholesterol or run the risk of losing their sight. • The personal price you pay in terms of health is great when you fail to reduce high cholesterol. But the poor health and increased threat of heart attack affect the wallet proportionate to the increased risk for heart disease. The cost of a first time heart attack or stroke occurring in people who failed to reduce their cholesterol was more than $13 billion considering both lost wages and hospitalization. For recurring heart attacks or fatal strokes the cost continues at $13 billion per year. Other indirect costs bring that total up to $53.6 billion per year according to an article in the Journal of the American Heart Asso
