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Death is the most feared thing by every single person in this world. If the come has come, perhaps they are not scared, but what if they are not ready, and suddenly death comes and take their life away? This kind of accident has happened every time, everywhere, all over the world. Many communities, many families, many societies have grieved by this unexpected tragedy.

In order to prevent this accident to come to us, we need to make and create the very best protection for our lives. Start from the medical check-up to see the high cholesterol level in our body, is it high enough to threat our lives or now. Put the medical check-up as the number one priority, especially when you have entered the age of 50. The next thing is whether you have a high level of cholesterol or not, you need to enhance and increase the number of hdl cholesterol over your body. This cholesterol is mostly said as the good cholesterol that helps you to restore the bad cholesterol level in your blood. In this way, you will be well alert for every single unknown condition ever happen to your internal system, so that you can prevent yourself anytime death and it disease such as heart attack come.

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You can not feel if you have high cholesterol levels in the same way that you feel a headache, but a high cholesterol level in combination with other risk factors can lead to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease symptoms.

Atherosclerosis is the buildup of cholesterol and fat (fatty deposits or plaques) in arterial walls, leading to the arteries to narrow and harden, losing its elasticity and therefore the movement is difficult.

These fatty plaques can rupture, causing blood to clot around the rupture, and if this happens the blood can not flow to part of the body, triggering the death of tissue.

The following are the symptoms of cardiovascular disease and depend on the degree of arterial narrowing:

• If the arteries of the lower limbs have a limited supply, this can cause leg pain when walking or running and if a clot blocks the vessel, the lack of blood flow can come to the point of requiring amputation.
• In the brain, a blood clot (thrombus) may block an artery or a smaller blood vessel coming to rupture, causing local haemorrhage (bleeding). Either will lead to a stroke.
• In the heart, narrowed coronary arteries cause angina and plaque rupture, causing blood clots that can lead to heart attack or heart function through damage reduced a significant amount of heart muscle.
• If the carotid arteries in the neck become narrow, clots may form passing floats in the brain, resulting in a stroke or repeated ‘mini-strokes “(transient ischemic attacks or TIAs).

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