How to effectively treat hyperlipidemia

Patients with hyperlipidemia should adopt scientific methods in treatment. At the same time, they should pay attention to maintaining their weight in life and not be too fat. They should also pay attention to proper exercise, quit smoking and drinking, and eat scientifically, not eating foods with high cholesterol or fat content.

1. Maintain a proper weight and don’t be too fat.

Obesity can easily lead to a variety of diseases. The average plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels of obese people are significantly higher than those of people of normal weight of the same age. At the same time, a person's body fat distribution is closely related to the level of plasma lipoprotein, especially for people with central obesity (big belly and high visceral fat), who are more likely to have high blood lipids. Data shows that for many obese people, their blood lipid disorders return to normal after they lose weight.

2. Exercise regularly, including aerobic exercise

(1. Exercise intensity: Generally speaking, the heart rate level after exercise can measure the amount of exercise and whether a person's exercise intensity is appropriate. You can see whether the heart rate exceeds 80% of the individual's maximum heart rate. It is better to control it at around 80%. The form of exercise is moderate walking, jogging, swimming, skipping rope, doing aerobics, cycling and other aerobic activities.

(2. Exercise time: Before exercise, you need to move your body. You can do 5-10 minutes of warm-up exercises to raise your heart rate to a certain level, and then do 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise to make your body sweat a little. After the exercise, do 5-10 minutes of relaxation activities to relax your body. You can do it 3-4 times a week, but not too frequently. If you feel unwell, you can take a proper rest.

(3. Pay attention to safety protection during exercise to avoid injury.

3. Quit smoking and drinking

Smoking can increase plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels and lower HDL-cholesterol levels. After one year of stopping smoking, plasma HDL-cholesterol can rise to the level of non-smokers, and the risk of coronary heart disease can be reduced by 50%, even approaching that of non-smokers.

4. Diet therapy

Plasma lipids mainly come from food. By controlling diet, plasma cholesterol levels can be reduced by 5% to 10%, which also helps in weight loss. And make lipid-lowering drugs play the best effect. Most patients with type III hyperlipoproteinemia can reduce their blood lipid levels to normal through dietary treatment and correction of other coexisting metabolic disorders.

The timing of dietary treatment depends mainly on the patient's risk of coronary heart disease and plasma LDL-cholesterol level. In general, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease, the lower the plasma LDL-cholesterol level at which dietary therapy should be initiated.