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According to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, nearly 40% of Canadians live with high cholesterol. Why is it so important to watch your cholesterol? High cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. A healthy diet and active lifestyle can reduce your cholesterol levels and improve your well-being.

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Evidence Summary

Providing patients and their care providers with information about cardiovascular disease risk may help with prevention measures
BMJ Open (2015)
Evidence Summary

The Portfolio diet in combination with an NCEP Step II diet may reduce multiple cardiometabolic risk factors
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases (2018)
Web Resource Rating

High cholesterol: Does reducing the amount of fat in your diet help?
Informed Health Online

Eat less saturated fats in your diet to help prevent heart disease. Eat less meat, butter, cheese and cream to improve your health long-term.
Evidence Summary

Endurance exercise improves cholesterol levels and heart health in people with coronary artery disease
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (2017)
Patient Decision Aid

Cardiovascular Risk Decision Support Tool
OHRI

This patient decision aid helps primary care clinicians, cardiologists, NPs, PAs with their patients decide whether to start a statin medication or quit smoking to reduce their cardiovascular risk. It facilitates the process by comparing the risks and benefits of each option.
Evidence Summary

Interventions to improve adherence to lipid-lowering medication.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2016)
Evidence Summary

Mobile health interventions can improve medication adherence and physical activity in patients with cardiovascular disease
European Journal of Preventative Cardiology (2015)
Evidence Summary

Statins do not increase risk of serious or minor symptomatic side-effects
Eur J Prev Cardiol (2014)
Evidence Summary

In people with 2 to 4 diabetes risk factors, high-dose atorvastatin reduced cardiovascular risk but increased new-onset diabetes compared with low-dose statins
J Am Coll Cardiol (2013)
Evidence Summary

Statins reduce mortality, cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke in people with no history of cardiovascular disease
Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013)
Patient Decision Aid

Statin side effects: Weigh the benefits and risks.
OHRI

This patient decision aid helps people with high cholesterol who are prescribed statins decide on whether or not to take statins by comparing the benefits, risks, and side effects of both options.
Patient Decision Aid

Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you?
OHRI

This patient decision aid helps people with high cholesterol at risk for cardiovascular disease decide on whether or not to take statins by comparing the benefits, risks, and side effects of both options.
Web Resource Rating

Statins
Cognitive Vitality

Research has shown that taking statins later in life will not prevent Alzheimer’s or dementia. Statins are used to manage cholesterol. Cholesterol management may lower your risk for getting Alzheimer’s disease as you get older.
Web Resource Rating

Precision nutrition: LDL cholesterol and heart disease
GB HealthWatch

High cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease or stroke. Maintain a healthy diet, reduce your intake of fatty foods, quit smoking and exercise regularly to reduce your cholesterol levels. If you have a family history of high cholesterol, speak to your doctor about the possibility of genetic testing to see if you have an abnormal gene that increases your risk.
Web Resource Rating

Lowering cholesterol without tablets
Informed Health Online

Maintaining a healthy weight and exercising can help to lower high cholesterol. Reducing the amount of saturated fats in your diet may also help.
Evidence Summary

Self-management support interventions improve patient quality of life and reduce use of hospital care for patients with long-term respiratory and cardiovascular conditions
Health Services and Delivery Research (2014)
Blog Post

Concerned about your cholesterol? Let’s talk walking in women

Walking strikes again! Research shows it can hold benefits for women living with overweight and obesity when it comes to their cholesterol.
Blog Post

The Portfolio diet: An investment in your heart health?

When it comes to lowering your cholesterol, eating a “portfolio” of cholesterol-lowing foods may be a good way to invest in your heart health.

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