The good thing is that specific therapies are available for them, drugs can work. Now gene therapy is also a very big thing that is coming and soon, we will have genetic treatment so that they are cured permanently but till then they can have medicine to lower their cholesterol level,” he said.
For others who do not have this genetic predisposition, unhealthy lifestyle habits can also cause high cholesterol. It can be caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, diabetes and smoking and a sedentary lifestyle. So, for those patients, lifestyle changes are going to work and if they are very strict in their lifestyle changes, they can have normal cholesterol levels without medication,” according to Dr. Chowdhury.
