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Cholesterol, the enemy of the vascular system

If cholesterol is required for all roles it plays in our body (thinning of cell membranes, the precursor of various hormones and vitamin D), however its excess leads to disaster.

This overflow occurs when cholesterol, for various reasons, one that has not been used is not evacuated as it should by the HDL proteins which took him to the liver where it is degraded by acid bile spin then gently towards the bile.

What happens then this excess cholesterol? It must be that it fits somewhere! Alas, he loves the vascular system where it mixes in a perverse alchemy, with other substances to form a nasty mud (called atheroma, the Greek "athérée" meaning gruel) which sticks to artery walls. Like washing machines whose pipes are flooded limestone cholesterol narrows the arteries. Blood propels them less and less, cap and when it happens in the coronary arteries nourishing the heart, called UAS.