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How to manage ‘silent killer’ high cholesterol? India gets first-ever guidelines – Firstpost

2024-07-06 06:32 AM

Experts recommend everyone should have their first lipid profile evaluated at the age of 18. Representational Image/Pixabay India has seen a surge in heart attacks in younger people in the past years. Recently, a physician body in the country flagged that Indians suffered from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which include strokes and heart attacks, a “decade …

High cholesterol is ‘silent killer’: India gets first-ever lipid guidelines

2024-07-04 06:07 PM

India has received its first set of guidelines to help people control high cholesterol. Cardiologists worldwide, including India, have been following the 2019 guidelines by the European Society of Cardiology. Now, the Cardiolgocial Society of India (CSI), a 22-member committee, released the first-ever guidelines on July 4 for dyslipidemia (high cholesterol) management in the country. …