[In whom, when and how should increased cholesterol values be treated?].
High cholesterol values enhance the development of coronary heart disease. Therefore they must be normalized within the framework of a primary and secondary prevention. Apart from the risk factor cholesterol, other influencable and non-influencencable risk factors play a decisive role for the patient concerned. The simultaneous presence of these factors also finally determines the intensity of the lipid-lowering therapy. For a successful therapy, besides dietary measures, modern therapeutic drugs are available, and their use--as a rule--helps to normalize moderate and strongly increased cholesterol values. Despite all help in decision-making it always will remain the decision of a responsible doctor, which measures he will take to reduce the individual coronary risk of a particular patient entrusted to him.
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Medizinische Kernklinik und Poliklinik, Universitäts-Krankenhaus, Eppendorf, Hamburg.
D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*
Bei wem, wann und wie sollten erhöhte Cholesterin-Werte behandelt werden?