Total cholesterol 6.99 usually means 6.99mmol/l, which is not very serious, but if not controlled can easily lead to cardiovascular diseases. Elevated total cholesterol can lead to atherosclerosis, causing coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and other cardiovascular and cerebral vascular diseases, and controlling total cholesterol can prevent the occurrence of these diseases. Total cholesterol control target should preferably be less than 5.2mmol/l. Elevated total cholesterol first dietary improvement, low-salt and low-fat diet, do not eat animal offal, fatty meat and other high-fat foods, eat lean meat products. If the observation of 3 months total cholesterol control does not meet the standard, you can take statin drugs, atorvastatin, resuvastatin and other lipid-lowering treatment. Total cholesterol is found to be elevated to the hospital, according to the doctor’s instructions to control the lipid level.