High Cholesterol Treatment
Maintaining heart health is one of the most important things that you can do for your overall health and longevity. Managing your cholesterol is an important part of this. Juan A. Alas, MD, in La Habra, California, has extensive experience helping his patients maintain healthy cholesterol levels, allowing them to lead active and enjoyable lives. Call or go online today to schedule your first appointment to find out what you can do to protect yourself from high cholesterol.
Juan A. Alas, MD
Family Medicine located in La Habra, CA
High Cholesterol Treatment Q & A
What is high cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a fatty substance that occurs naturally in your body and is an important part of many bodily functions. However, through a combination of genetics and lifestyle habits, the levels of cholesterol in your blood can rise above normal levels.
If left unmanaged, cholesterol can build up in your arteries, leading to atherosclerosis and heart disease. Eventually, these conditions can worsen into life-threatening events like a heart attack.
What symptoms would indicate that I have high cholesterol?
High cholesterol doesn’t have any symptoms and many people can have high cholesterol for years without knowing it, causing unnecessary damage to their arteries.
For this reason, it’s very important to get your cholesterol levels checked regularly. Dr. Juan A. Alas has extensive experience in both detecting high cholesterol levels early and creating a comprehensive plan of care to bring levels down.
How is high cholesterol treated?
Fortunately for those that are already suffering from high cholesterol, there’s a wide range of effective treatments available.
Maintaining healthy lifestyle habits like eating a heart-healthy diet, getting plenty of exercise, and maintaining a healthy weight can help to prevent high cholesterol levels in the first place and to lower them if they’re already elevated.
For some people, though, healthy lifestyle changes are not enough, and cholesterol-lowering medications will be needed. Dr. Juan A. Alas will determine your treatment needs in order to adequately manage your cholesterol levels and protect your heart health for years to come.
Which treatments are right for me?
Because high cholesterol levels depend on many factors like age, sex, weight, health habits, and genetics, the right approach to lower one person’s cholesterol might not be the right approach for another.
With his combination of expert knowledge, extensive experience, and compassionate approach, Dr. Juan A. Alas takes great care to determine your unique risk of heart disease and develops a comprehensive, multipronged approach to lowering your cholesterol to healthy levels, helping you maintain a healthy heart for years to come.
Call or go online today to schedule your first appointment to learn what your high cholesterol treatment options are.
