High cholesterol increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, but not only that. It is also a disruptor of fertility and the duration of conception according to the results of a study published in the medical journal the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health, the University of Buffalo (New York) and Emory University (Atlanta) wanted to establish the role of lipids in human fertility and the time of conception. They hypothesized that high cholesterol increases conception time and impairs fertility.
Scientists followed until pregnancy or for a year of attempts, 501 couples who were untreated for fertility who wanted to conceive. Throughout the study, they assessed their cholesterol.
The researchers found higher cholesterol levels in couples without fertilization during the duration of the study. They also noticed a correlation between these cholesterol levels and the time to conception. Indeed, this time increases for couples where both partners have a high cholesterol, as well as for couples where only the woman has too much cholesterol.
Before conceiving, establish your lipid balance
“Couples who are looking to conceive should also perform lipid blood tests to put all their chances on their side” explains Prof. Enrique Schisterman, director of the Epidemiology Department at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health (NICHD), lead author of the study.
In France, a recent study carried out by Unilever Fruit d’Or pro activ revealed that 2 in 5 French people do not know their cholesterol level. “The French have rather in-depth general knowledge about cholesterol (92% of them are able to differentiate between the different types of cholesterol). On the other hand, if 7 in 10 know what a good cholesterol level is, only 4 in 10 know their own. cholesterol According to the results of this poll.
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