Lipid Profile Test in Gujranwala

Heart disease in South Asia arrives earlier than it does in most of the world. Cardiologists routinely see first heart attacks in patients in their forties here, and often in people who felt perfectly well the week before. A lipid profile is one of the few tests that gives you warning before anything happens.

The test measures the fats circulating in your blood. Some of those fats build up in artery walls over years, narrowing them silently until something blocks. There are no symptoms of high cholesterol, which is exactly why it goes undetected until a cardiac event forces the issue.

Your doctor is likely to order a lipid profile if you are over 40, have a family history of heart attack or high cholesterol, are diabetic, have high blood pressure, are overweight or smoke, are already on a cholesterol medicine, or are having a general annual checkup, since it is included in all three of our wellness packages.

Punjabi cooking is not the enemy here, but it is honest to say that a diet heavy in ghee, fried food and refined flour, combined with the amount of sitting most office work now involves, produces exactly the lipid pattern cardiologists worry about.