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Cholesterol management health centre

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Overview & facts

Do you have high cholesterol? It’s a silent health risk that can be deadly. Here’s the essential information you need about good and bad cholesterol – and your risk of heart disease.  

What is cholesterol?

Cholesterol basics

What is cholesterol? Here’s a comprehensive overview of this topic, including definitions of cholesterol types, target cholesterol levels, and more.

Are you at risk?

Who gets high cholesterol?

Learn what causes high cholesterol and what controls it.

High cholesterol in children

Find out about children’s cholesterol and their risk of heart disease.

Prevention

Cholesterol-lowering foods

Exercise, oats, soya, fish, nuts: They all help lower cholesterol.

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