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What can you do to lower your cholesterol level in blood?
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Lifestyle changes: First treatment for high cholesterol is diet, exercise and weight loss which really means changes in lifestyle forever, all for the better. If the lipid profile is still abnormal, medicines can be considered, depending on other risk factors like age, family history, hypertension, diabetes, overweight. If a patient has suffered strokes or heart attacks. the decision to start medicines is more imper
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