Stress, smoking, physical inactivity, malnutrition are regular risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. However, disorders of lipometabolism and a high value of cholesterin can often cause preterm and severe atherosclerosis. Most often the vessels around your heart, head and legs are affected. In order to notice this problem as early as possible and to prevent implicated diseases, like a cardiac infarction, strokes, amputations etc, a spezial diagnosis and therapy is essential.

Medical inspection

At first we will survey your medical records and history and let you have a general medical examination. As a second step of treating disorder of lipometabolism follows:

• an ultrasonic check of heart and vessels

• certain laboratory tests

Treating disorders of lipometabolism

Disorder of lipometabolism is normally treated by changing your nutrition to a cholesterin-reduced diet and with the help of drugs. If you have any specific questions concerning a cholesterin-reduced diet you will find any counselling required in one of our outpatient departments. It might be that neither diet nor drugs get the desired effect so that a LDL-apheresis (low-densitiy-lipoprotein) is required to get positive results.