Cholesterol and body weight management

Abstract

During recent decades, coronary heart disease mortality rates have fallen in some industrialized countries and the decreases are attributable to improvements in medical care and in the reduction of the major cardiovascular risk factors. Similar reductions have not been observed in Asia and there is a need to reduce the toll of coronary heart disease in our population. In the clinical management of our patients, all the major coronary heart disease risk factors need to be evaluated.There is an effective armamentarium available to control many of them and the management of hypercholesterolemia and obesity, two of the major risk factors, will be discussed.