Cholesterol myths and truth....

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Published on Mar 30, 2022

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What processes in our body influence the development of cardiovascular diseases? Why can't heart disease be diagnosed based on cholesterol levels? How does cholesterol affect our body? We constantly hear that the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases is a high level of bad cholesterol in the blood. Today, world scientists have proven that heart disease cannot be diagnosed based on cholesterol levels, and standard recipes for reducing it, such as ineffective diets low in fat or carbohydrates and statin drugs that cause serious side effects, obscure the true causes of heart disease. This is confirmed by the largest scientific study conducted in Lithuania. After evaluating over one and a half million lipidograms, and a lipidogram is a group of indicators that are determined when assessing the risk of coronary heart disease, scientists found that 68% of people with higher than normal levels of bad cholesterol do not suffer from cardiovascular diseases. A participant in the "Health Code" project "Towards Health" of our show, Vilnius St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra conductor Professor Donatas Katkus has been suffering from various cardiovascular diseases for several decades, but has never had cholesterol above the norm in his life. The maestro's wife, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor Laima Katkuvienė, always surprised everyone with her cholesterol tests every time she had to consult doctors about circulatory diseases. Doctors could not believe that the cholesterol of patients who had been sick for so many years was always within the normal range. This means that it was not cholesterol that provoked cardiovascular diseases. So what processes in our body influence the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases? Scientists claim that it is impossible to apply the same cholesterol norms to all people. Finally, we would like to remind you that while worrying about the growing number of deaths from the COVID-19 virus and the number of complications caused by it, we should not forget another gloomy statistic that Lithuanian doctors have been monitoring for many years - the extremely high mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases. Last year, as many as 22,000 people died from these diseases in Lithuania. This means that about sixty people die every day. According to these statistics, we are still leading the European Union, and we exceed the average of the union countries by as much as four times. Studies conducted by the World Heart Federation have proven that as much as 80 percent of premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by controlling the main risk factors. But more on that in our next program. About this: Prof. Hab. Dr. Arvydas Ambrozaitis, Vilnius University professor; Dr. Mindaugas Dūdonis, family doctor at the Clinic "Sveikatos ratas"; Prof. Žaneta Petrulionienė, Head of the Cardiology Department of the Cardiology and Angiology Center of the VUL Santaros Clinics; Prof. Donatas Katkus, conductor of the Vilnius St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra; Neringa Sakalauskė, family doctor at "Antėja laboratorija".

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