When there is too much ‘bad’ cholesterol in your blood, the excess cholesterol gets deposited in the walls of your blood vessels. These deposits cause narrowing and hardening of the blood vessels or atherosclerosis.  This can lead to slowing down or blockage of the flow of blood, resulting in

• angina (chest pain) and heart attacks
• stroke
• peripheral artery disease (narrowing of the blood vessels of the limbs).

Lowering of abnormal LDL cholesterol level is most important in the prevention of the above diseases.