How does consumption of fat affect Coronary Heart disease? (CHD)

Coronary heart disease is when plaque is built in coronary arteries’ endothelium narrowing the lumen of coronary artery. This may cause the acceleration of blood pressure level and even block the lumen causing heart attack shock and shock.

 Recent research shows that fat consumption affects the possibility of getting CHD, since plaque is made of fatty material. So there is certainly relation between fat consumption and CHD. Certainly it shows that over consumption of fat might cause CHD. However it is not the case all of the fat are causing factor of CHD. There are three types of fats which are saturated fat, unsaturated fat and trans fat. Until now, it is found out that saturated fat and trans fat is main reason of CHD.

source: (Hu F, et al. N Engl J Med 1997;337:1491–)

 Saturated fat is when all fatty acid are single bonded and those fat are mainly found in meat of animals and Trans fat is usually found in foods that are artificially made such as in cake or sausages. reason why these are one of the main factor of Coronary heart disease is because that since it is all single bonded it is hard to be soluble and those not get dissolved. Easily which will the get deposited to form plaque. Also it raises the cholesterol level. Mainly there are two cholesterol type in our body, Low density lipoprotein(LDL) which are bad from our body since it helps to build plaque to build up in arteries. And high density lipoprotein(HDL) on the other hand is a good cholesterol since it helps our body to remove LDL from our arteries. However cholesterol which saturated and trans fat usually create is LDL which is why they especially increase possibility of getting CHD

However unsaturated fat is when fatty acid are not fully single bonded, and they contain monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat where we can found in olive oil corn oil or fishes. These unsaturated fat, on the other hand are good fat against saturated and trans fat. Since as mentioned before, High density lipoprotein are good cholesterol which eliminates LDL. So we can call unsaturated fat since it reduces the danger of getting coronary heart disease.

Fat seems not but are critically important in our life. Fats are used as insulation or storage of energy and it also has a role of transporting blood, and it is important to find how and what fat to consume. In our daily life, we should avoid saturated fats from avoiding animal meats and also trans fat by avoiding foods such as muffins or cake, but consume fat from unsaturated fat which are usually found in fish or vegetable oil such as corn oil