Issued by Cardiological Society of India Lipid Guidelines President of and at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital JPS Sahni, Director of Cardiology Department Told that it has often been said that heart attacks occur due to high blood pressure, diabetes, stress or other reasons, but on the contrary, the thing seen to be most responsible for heart attacks in India is dyslipidemia. That means lipid profile which is not normal in 80 percent of the people in India.

50 percent of heart attack cases are due to this reason
Co-author of the guidelines and from AIIMS New Delhi Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, Professor, Department of Cardiology If we believe, 50 percent of heart attack cases occur due to lipid profile. When patients are examined after a heart attack or cardiac arrest, it is found that their lipid profile is not correct, nor have they ever got it checked. A lot of people don’t know what it is.

What is this lipid profile?

What should be the lipid level?
The amount of HDL cholesterol in the body should be more than 40. We can increase HDL cholesterol levels through exercise. However, unfortunately there is no medicine to increase good cholesterol. If we talk about triglyceride, it should be below 200. The increase in triglycerides also increases due to our poor diet, eating too much sweet and oily food and irregular lifestyle. We should control the sugar level, do not consume alcohol and we can keep it low through medicines. There is also an extended lipid profile, in which lipoprotein A is seen. This is also a type of bad cholesterol which increases the risk of heart attack in our body.

When should lipid test be done?
Guidelines say that the way lifestyle is going on today, cases of heart attack and cardiac arrest are being seen. Every person should get his lipid profile tested after 20-25 years. You can get your lipids checked every 5 years till the age of 40. Whereas after the age of 40, get your lipid profile checked once every year.