There are three levels of heart block (see below), and usually only the most serious type causes symptoms. This type of heart block is known as a complete, or third-degree, heart block. Symptoms of heart block can include: shortness of breath.
It can be hard to understand the cholesterol numbers on the cholesterol food chart, much less what your doctor is saying when he tells you, âYour total cholesterol is 240, your HDL is 35, your LDL is 170, and your triglycerides are 350.â.
June 29, 2015. Deemed good cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, has earned a reputation as a guardian of cardiac health, countering the damage caused by other lipids, chief among them low-density lipoprotein, or bad cholesterol. Indeed, a number of studies over the past few decades have demonstrated the benefits of higher HDL levels, highlighting HDL's ability to mop up bad cholesterol from the walls of blood vessels -- the chief culprit in heart attacks and strokes.