How much total cholesterol is considered high

Total cholesterol is considered borderline elevated if it is between 5.2-6.19 mmol/L, and elevated if it is greater than 6.2 mmol/L. For patients with high total cholesterol, they must actively improve their lifestyles, for example, pay attention to a low-salt, low-fat diet, eat more low-calorie, low-carbohydrate, low-cholesterol foods, and carry out a high dietary fiber diet to better reduce total cholesterol, and if necessary, they also need to take lipid-lowering drugs to reduce total cholesterol. At present, the most widely used lipid-lowering drugs are statins, and the representative drugs are atorvastatin, pravastatin and so on. In addition, for people who cannot take statins, they can also take the oral Chinese medicine Blood Lipid Health to lower the total cholesterol level.