Causes of high total cholesterol

It is well known that there are many components in the blood. For middle-aged and elderly friends, when doing a routine blood test, they usually pay special attention to the cholesterol and triglyceride levels, because if these two items are high at the same time, it means that you have hyperlipidemia. In fact, if the lipoprotein and cholesterol levels in the routine blood test increase at the same time, it means that the liver and lungs of the human body are damaged.

However, there are actually many clinical reasons for high total cholesterol. The normal total cholesterol level is 110-230 mg/dL. When you find that your total cholesterol is higher than this value during a routine blood test, you need to pay attention to whether you have certain diseases.

Total cholesterol is widely distributed in the human body, with the highest content in the liver, kidneys, brain and nervous tissue. Total cholesterol also plays a very important role in the human body. It is an important component of cell membranes and the main raw material for synthesizing biologically active substances such as adrenal cortical hormones and sex hormones. If the total cholesterol is too high, it may be caused by a disease in an organ in the body. Of course, there are two reasons for high total cholesterol: physiological and pathological.

Physiological reasons: Unscientific diet can cause high total cholesterol. If you eat a lot of foods containing high total cholesterol, such as animal offal, it will cause excessive cholesterol in the body, eventually causing high total cholesterol. So this is the reason for high total cholesterol, and it is related to our daily diet, so you should pay attention to it.

Pathological causes:

1. Obstructive jaundice. At this time, due to the obstruction of bile excretion, lipoprotein-X appears in the blood and the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver is hyperactive, with an increase in free cholesterol as the main feature. It causes high total cholesterol, so obstructive jaundice is one of the causes of high total cholesterol.

2. Liver cell damage. When cholesterol esterification is impaired, blood cholesterol decreases. In severe cases such as cirrhosis and severe hepatitis, total blood cholesterol also increases.

After knowing the reasons for high total cholesterol, if it is due to pathological reasons, it is recommended that you first treat the disease that causes high total cholesterol, so that your total cholesterol will decrease. In order to prevent the occurrence of high total cholesterol, you should eat more foods that have the effect of lowering cholesterol.