We have some guidance for you if you have high cholesterol, which may be a reason for heart disease. This will be important and useful information to help you manage your heart health.

Possibility of having high blood cholesterol increases if someone in your family has high blood cholesterol.

There is simple remedy to tackle high blood cholesterol if it is detected at early stage.

Balanced diet and regular exercise are the best way to fight high cholesterol in blood.

As much the body is strained by regular exercise, there will be more chance of melting fat in your body lowering the bad cholesterol content in your blood. Balanced and low cholesterol diet will prevent you from depositing excess fat in the body which increases cholesterol content in blood.

However, if the situation becomes acute, then diet, exercise, and even diet pills, may not be enough to lower your blood cholesterol level.

In such a situation, you require some special treatment along with your exercise and balance diet. Fist action will be to visit a doctor and try the medicinal help as per his instructions.

Most of the experienced doctors generally recommend Lipitor along with diet and exercise in cases of high blood cholesterol which may initiate a heart attack.

Lipitor has proved itself a suitable oral medicine effective for lowering blood cholesterol which also reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke in people.

The medicine is equally helpful for the persons suffering from multiple risk factors for heart disease like high blood pressure, family history of high cholesterol, vulnerable age for heart attack, low content of good cholesterol in blood etc. Remember that there is “good cholesterol" also which is favorable to body and also there is “bad cholesterol" which is the culprit and harmful to the body.

Let us discuss some points about Lipitor and its effectiveness for its fight against heart attack.

The medical name of Lipitor is Atorvastatin Calcium, which is a member of the class of medicine known as statins. The medicine is marketed in the US by Pfizer in the name of Lipitor.

The medicine has different names in different countries. Lipitor is the largest selling drug in the world with $12.2 Billions US sales figure in 2005.

This medicine inhibits cholesterol synthesis in the body, which lowers the amount of cholesterol produced and thus lowering the total amount of LDL cholesterol which is the so called bad cholesterol inviting heart attack.

With 2005 sales of US$12.2 billion under the brand name Lipitor, it is the largest selling drug in the world.

However, there are a few Lipitor side effects, and let me place it briefly as below:

Most common side effects are the liver problem and in rare cases there may be muscle problems. The medicine is not fit for pregnant or breast feeding mothers. Also the medicine may not match with continuing with habit of drinking.

The other Lipitor side effects are headache, insomnia and dizziness etc. While you are under treatment with Lipitor, and are affected by any of the above side effects, immediately consult your doctor.

However, in spite of its side effects, which can easily be tackled by an experienced doctor, Lipitor is the most effective medicine to fight bad cholesterol in your body. You just judge the sales figures of last year!

So, if your problem is acute, visit a doctor and try Lipitor.