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The best way to reduce high cholesterol is through making dietary changes and increasing the amount of exercise you take. Doctors usually recommend a low- fat diet, using olive or rapeseed oil for cooking, eating oily fish, taking fish oil supplements and garlic powder tablets.

If dietary changes have failed, your doctor may prescribe a lipid-lowering drug. This would be in instances where total blood cholesterol is above 7.8 mmol/l and is mainly in the form of harmful LDL-cholesterol.

In some cases, raised cholesterol levels are due to hereditary difficulties with fat metabolism. In these instances, one or more drugs often have to be prescribed.