Arthroscopy Health Feed

Triglycerides: take balanced diet with good amount of green leafy vegetables. Increase amount of whole grain rice and pulses in diet. Avoid processed cereals. Avoid white bread, white flour, ghee, butter and oil.
Exercise regularly (at least 150 mins/week). Repeat your lipid profile 3 weeks after applying these lifestyle modifications.
Tsh: if there are no other symptoms, just monitor your tsh, medications are not required at this stage.
Repeat tsh after 2 months.

What is farsightedness (hyperopia)?

Farsightedness (hyperopia), sometimes referred to as long-sightedness, is a vision problem where the eye is unable to properly focus close objects on the retina. This condition can occur naturally, but it can also be acquired due to ageing, increased axial length of the eyes, or damage to the lens or cornea.

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Low hdl can be due to smoking, excess weight, poor diet, lack of exercise etc. Improve your lifestyle and you should be able to increase your hdl.

You have to change your lifestyle and after having below normal level cholesterol level on your test report you can stop taking medicine, but high cholesterol+hypertension is a rf for cardiovascular disease, even after normal report after some time it increases so you have to restart the medicine. As I have seen in many patients to whom I have prescribed these medicines, after finding normal cholesterol level they stop taking medicine without consulting and after a month or 2 they came with high...more

As per your results you don't have a serious problem. However you should reduce the amount of alcohol.

Try to decrease items containing fat from your diet like ghee, butter, red meat oil etc. Do aerobic exercises regularly. However the level at which your triglyceride is, chances are less that it will become completely normal with diet modification and exercise only. At some point you will have to start medications. Anyway start diet modification and exercises now. It will surely be helpful.

Your non hdl cholesterol is slightly high. 1. Reduce food with high cholesterol.
2. Exercise regularly. Repeat the test after 3 weeks, if cholesterol is still high, you should start drugs.

No, it is not okay.
Lifestyle and dietary modification will certainly help in lowering cholesterol levels but often they are not able to lower the levels to recommended levels.

Nothing needs to be done.
1. Take balanced diet, especially give importance to salad and one seasonal fruit per day.
2. Exercise regularly (aerobic exercises at least 150 min per week).
3. Go to bed early, preferably before 10 pm.

Yes, raised ldl is bad for heart and causes coronary artery disease. From history that you have provided
1. You should take diet which is low in cholesterol.
2. Exercise regularly (at least 150 min of aerobic exercises per week).
3. Take ldl lowering medications.