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.
Total cholesterol numbers (as the name implies) measure the total amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream. These numbers combine levels for HDL, LDL, and another type of cholesterol known as VLDL, or very low-density lipoprotein. However, these numbers can be misleading because a person can have a healthy total cholesterol reading and still have low HDL or high LDL. Therefore, most cholesterol treatment decisions are based on HDL and LDL cholesterol numbers, not total numbers.