Brief Answer:
Can start
statin / Life style modification must
Detailed Answer:
Dear friend,
Welcome to Health Care Magic
There are subdivisions of
cholesterol – LDL, HDL, and so on.
HDL is good cholesterol – higher, the better… Your values are good.
LDL (& non-HDL) is bad cholesterol – lower, the better.
In the absence of any other risk factor 100 is ideal for LDL-C.
In the presence of
Diabetes or Coronary
Artery Disease, 70 should be the aim.
Yours is a little elevated…
Keep your weight to normal / even a little less
Quit
smoking, if you are a smoker
Do regular EXERCISE – say walking or jogging - 30 minutes a day / at least 5 days in a week.
Isometric exercise (like bull worker) is bad.
Healthy FOOD is a must. Avoid saturated fats – coconut oil, palm oil, butter, full cream milk...Avoid junk foods in particular – French fries have palm oil / Pizza has cheese /Change to Poly-un-saturated oil – like sun flower oil. / Include Mono-un-saturated oil – Olive oil.
Repeat the test in 6 weeks.
Cholesterol can still be high, in spite of diet and exercise – you need drugs / because it is also manufactured in the liver – and that is determined by heredity. Statin is the first choice.
Some start statins straight away – even with normal levels, even without problems (Primary Prophylaxis). Because it has benefits beyond cholesterol – like anti-oxidant and
plaque stabilisation…
Take care
Wishing all well
God bless