statins??

[Georgeb46]

Hi, I am 53 years old which is the same age my father was when he died of an MI back in the 80s.

I recently requested a cholesterol test from my GP as I haven’t really heard from them for a number of years and when i checked the results it just said normal with no further action. They are aware that my father died at a young age as i stated this when i requested the test and having checked my results I thought they would have been pushing statins on me. Not that i want to go on medication!

My results are:

HDL= 1.4

Cholesterol Serum= 5.3

LDL = 3.5

HDL/NON HDL RATIO = 3.8

NON HDL = 3.9

Triglyceride = 0.9

I’m low BMI (5’10” & less than 10st)

Any advice would be appreciated.

thank you

[mgdoble]

Just my personal opinion, not advice. You're not in need of statins because if you wanted to you could easily drop the number through diet. And presumably they concluded there were no other risk factors, weight, blood pressure etc. Triglycerides okay, LDL number too high. Look for saturated fats to cut out or reduce, cheese, butter, milk with fat, fish instead of meat. Increase sources of soluble fibre to carry the cholestorol away, beans and pulses (chickpea curry?), porridge, pysillium husks, apple a day. I'm a vegetarian and knocked a point off the total doing that.

[DakCB-UK in reply to mgdoble]

agreed. I'd be very happy with those test results if I was unmedicated. Unless there's something more in your family history to make you suspect an inherited condition, then a healthy diet and active lifestyle (say 30mins a day, averaged) should get you to the recommended figures easily with that from the looks of it. Congratulations and don't squander that good fortune!