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Cholesterol is a fat-like material in your blood. Your body makes its own cholesterol. When you eat foods that have lots of fat or cholesterol, you can have too much cholesterol in your blood.


Cholesteral can build up on the inside the blood vessels of your heart. If too much cholesterol builds up, then the blood cannot flow through to your heart. This can cause a heart attack.
 

Cholesterol is required to build and maintain cell membranes; it regulates membrane fluidity over a wide range of temperatures. The liver produces about 1 gram of cholesterol per day, in bile. The hydroxyl group on cholesterol interacts with the polar head groups of the membrane phospholipids and sphingolipids, while the bulky steroid and the hydrocarbon chain is embedded in the membrane, alongside the nonpolar fatty acid chains of the other lipids.

What are the warning signs of high blood cholesterol?

Most people do not have any signs.
Sometimes cholesterol can build up in the blood vessels of your heart and cause chest pains.

How do you find out if you have high cholesterol?

Go to the doctor and ask for a cholesterol test. The test will let you know how much good and bad cholesterol you have.
The doctor will tell you the number for your total cholesterol level.
Your total cholesterol number should be under 200.