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Excess cholesterol: nearly 20% of the adult population affected

Cholesterol is a lipid that is essential to the body.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Today, Priorité Santé takes stock of cholesterol.

This lipid is essential to the body, maintains the structure of the membranes of the cells of our body and plays a role in the synthesis of certain hormones.

And yet, cholesterol can be good or bad.

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Excess cholesterol is detrimental to health and can lead in the long term to myocardial infarction, stroke or arteritis of the lower limbs.

In France, cholesterol is the cause of one out of two heart attacks and nearly 20% of the adult population has hypercholesterolemia.

What is the cause of hypercholesterolemia?

How to control your cholesterol level?

• Pr Philippe Gosse,

  head of the cardiology/arterial hypertension department, Saint-André hospital, in Bordeaux.

  Author of "Stop cholesterol, 100 questions and answers to know everything about cholesterol and protect your health", published by Marabout

• Dr Jérôme 

  BOOMBHI, 

  Cardiologist at the

  Yaoundé General Hospital in Cameroon

At the end of the program, we take stock of the

meeting which is taking place on June 28 and 29 at the

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This year, the theme is: “health, justice, a new ambition at the service of victims.

We talk about it with

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