Colestrol Canadian levels

 Colestrol Canadian levels. Time is heart muscle and heart muscle is life, Next time you visit your family doctor expect an increased interest in your cholesterol levels.

New Canadian guidelines presented at this year Canadian Cardiovascular Congress urged physicians to take a more aggressive approach to treating high-cholesterol  a major risk  factor for heart disease and stroke.

Colestrol Canadian levels. The new guidelines mean more people will be screened and advised to make lifestyle changes.

 It may also mean drug therapy will be used more frequently to lower elevated cholesterol levels and reduce the number of heart attacks.

 The guidelines also “harmonize” cholesterol screening and treatment recommendations across North America.

These guidelines are an updated version of previous recommendations published in May 2000, but which, in light of new research, are now considered outdated.

New targets

The new guidelines emphasize a more aggressive approach to lowering LDL (known as “bad” cholesterol) levels in relation to HDL (known as “good” cholesterol) levels and recommend that people at high risk – for example, those with a history of heart disease , or diabetes – be treated with lipid-lowering drugs immediately, along with any necessary lifestyle changes to achieve the following recommended targets:

• High risk target bad cholesterol LDL level less than 2.5 mmol/L and ratio of total cholesterol to HDL of less than 4.0 mmol/L
• Moderate risk target LDL level less than 3.5 and ratio of total cholesterol to HDL of less than 5.0
• Low risk target LDL level less than 4.5 and ratio of total cholesterol to HDL of less than 6.0

 The new guidelines are likely to remain in place for the next couple of years. “There are major clinical trials underway which are expected to further redefine the way we treat high cholesterol.

Toronto – Thanks to continuing efforts of the heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadians have become the fastest in the world at recognizing the symptoms of a heart attack and doing something about it.

A new international study comparing the time it took to deliver care to heart attack victims in seven countries found that Canadians took the least time to call for an ambulance. 

The study, which included at least 50 patients from each country, found that Canadians reached for the phone first, and that people from the UK were the last to call for help. It also found that patients got treated faster if they were younger, male, or had previous heart disease.

“The Heart and Stroke Foundation has been teaching Canadians how to recognize a heart attack, and underlining the “phone first” message with the public for many years now”, says Marc Gay, a paramedic and Chair of the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Emergency Cardiac Care Committee.

 “Obviously we’ve been successful, but Canadians need to know more about it