Low LDL is mostly related to diet, medication and certain diseases.
1. Dietary factors: It suggests that the subject may have an unbalanced diet with insufficient cholesterol content in food; or the subject may have excessive dieting, which leads to a lowering of LDL cholesterol.
2. Drug overdose: Lowering of LDL cholesterol level beyond the normal range may also suggest that the lipid-lowering drug the patient is taking is too strong, leading to low LDL cholesterol level.
3. Disease-related: hyperthyroidism, severe anemia, malabsorption syndrome, portal cirrhosis and other diseases can also lead to a decrease in LDL cholesterol levels.
LDL is a very important type of blood lipid and is often referred to as bad cholesterol. This is because it is strongly associated with the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Its elevation causes people to be more susceptible to cardiovascular disease.
It should be noted that the target value of LDL is different for different groups of people, such as patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the target value of LDL is lower than the normal value for healthy people, low LDL is not an indication for discontinuing lipid-lowering drugs, if you find that the LDL is too low, you should go to the hospital in time.