Lets say a person has high cholestrol for the first 30 or 40 years, because they never had it measured.

The person then finds out that the cholestrol is high and makes lifestyle changes to get the readings down in the low risk categories of the guidelines.

How long does it take for one to really benefit from the lifestyle changes? Is it days, months, years? I really haven't seen much info. or data on this.

People just seem to find out they have a problem and make changes hoping to get the cholestrol down to a
"safe level". Isn't it really over a lifetime that
one has to be concerned not just the latest reading.
Cholestrol levels will bounce all over the place it seems and really a range seems more appropriate over a lifetime then just spot readings from time to time.


I've been looking at these slides which have alot of info. They say 35% of MI's happen at chol. under 200.
http://www.heart.uci.edu/students/Lipids%20and%20CVD%20Prevention%200902.p df

Originally posted by odog:
I've been looking at these slides which have alot of info. They say 35% of MI's happen at chol. under 200.

I thought the percentage was higher than that. Closer to 50% is what I thought I had read. I will research and post when I find it.