Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there's no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.
I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.
Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.
When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.
I thought I had a chest infection and went to the doctor - five days later I was under the knife. It came completely out of the blue. My arteries were 95% blocked.
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats.
My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.
It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.
A man is as old as his arteries.
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.
I had three bypasses in one go, using arteries harvested from my leg and the right side of my chest.
A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
