high cholesterol is not so bad, but it helps prevent the degeneration of the white substance in the brain. It is the conclusion of an investigation carried out by scientists of the Hospital del Mar of Barcelona and published in the magazine Science Stroke.
The conclusion of this study would be in clear contradiction with the general idea of which cholesterol (the bad ”, of course) is a totally harmful substance to the health of the body human.
older persons suffering from hypertension tend to suffer from circulatory problems in the blood vessels of the brain. This entails more likely to suffer a dementia or an illness related to the deterioration of congitivo;patients also have less capacity for regeneration when suffer a stroke brain. To establish what the exact action of cholesterol and triglycerides on the white matter of the brain in people who have suffered a stroke, it was decided to carry out the study, carried out with the collaboration of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA).
The results were, when less, surprising; patients with high cholesterol showed less degeneration of the white substance in the brain. According to the neurologist Jordi Jiménez count: We have seen that cholesterol could have some beneficial role in the small blood vessels in cerebral ”.The doctor continued to his findings on cholesterol and its impact on the cerebro: it is true that a high level of cholesterol is a cardiovascular risk factor and could lead us to suffer a stroke, but it has also been observed that you a time suffered a stroke, cholesterol contributes to the recovery of damaged tissue and improves the prognosis ”.
Results are invited to rethink the use of aggressive treatment to lower cholesterol ”, said the neurologist. Us, defend without a doubt, that they have to reduce the high levels of cholesterol, but perhaps the balance of risks and benefits ceases to be favourable if we reduce them too low ”.We will have to be taken into account; What is certain is that extremes are never good …
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