What is high LDL cholesterol?

High LDL cholesterol is classified as hyperlipidemia. High LDL is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. If the patient is coronary heart disease, LDL should be controlled within 1.8mmol/l. Discovered high blood lipid, should pay attention to adjust the lifestyle, usually pay attention to low-fat diet, try not to eat fried food, animal fat, animal offal, animal brain egg yolk, crab yolk and other foods. In addition, to control the weight within the normal range, body mass index less than 24, usually pay attention to appropriate physical exercise, if after a period of time to improve the lifestyle of blood fat is still high, can be added to the lipid-lowering drug therapy, commonly used drugs are atorvastatin, resuvastatin and so on.