A group of senior professors and doctors of cardiovascular diseases in Egypt launched an initiative to raise awareness of the dangers of high blood cholesterol and blood lipid imbalances.
High blood cholesterol is considered as the greatest danger to the health of Egyptians, the most important causes of coronary artery blockage and heart and cerebral clots, is the imbalance of blood fats.
Cardiologists stressed, during a press conference that the cholesterol increase in the blood is a great danger that must be taken care of and treated early, through early follow-up of cholesterol levels and the reasons for its increase.
They revealed a study conducted from 2015-2018 to more than 3,300 Egyptian patients with heart attacks and atherosclerosis, which proved that Egyptians are more susceptible to atherosclerosis, blood lipid imbalance and heart attacks.
Heart attacks may affect children at the age of 12-15 years, and sometimes children may develop the risks of high cholesterol in the blood from the age of two years.
A group of cardiologists and vascular physicians participated in the launch of the initiative, including Mohamed Sobhy, Professor of Cardiology at Alexandria University and President of the Heart and Vascular Foundation, Ashraf Reda, Professor of Cardiology, Menoufia University, and Head of the Arteriosclerosis Society, and Ayman Abul-Magd, Professor of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University and Atef El-Bahri, Vice-President of the Arteriosclerosis Society, Adel El-Atreby, Professor of Cardiology, Ain Shams University and former President of the Egyptian Heart Association, and Nabil Farag, Professor and Head of Cardiology Department at Ain Shams Medicine.
