What is a triglyceride?
Triglyceride is a type of fat that you absorb from butter, oil, and other fatty foods.
Triglyceride enters the body through excess calories. These are the calories you eat, but your body doesn't use them right away. The body converts these excess calories into triglycerides and stores them in fat cells. When it needs energy, it uses stored triglycerides.
Elevated triglycerides significantly increase the risk of heart disease.
The triglyceride level may increase due to the following factors:
- You regularly take in more calories than you can burn;
- You are fat;
- You use tobacco;
- You drink a lot of alcohol;
- May be formed against the background of side effects of some medications;
- Some genetic disorders in the anamnesis;
- Thyroid disease in anamnesis;
- You do not properly control diabetes type two;
- Liver or kidney diseases in the anamnesis.
Based on the appropriate blood laboratory analysis, it is diagnosed whether the amount of triglycerides is increased or not.
In some clinical cases, drug therapy is recommended.
Sometimes it is adjusted against the background of lifestyle changes, namely:
- Weight control;
- Regular physical activity;
- Rejection of tobacco;
- Limiting sugar and refined foods in the diet to a minimum;
- Restriction of alcohol;
- Replacing saturated fat with healthy fat.
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