| One huge advantage of knowing about family | | | | too frequent to be coincidental, especially as it all |
| history is that sometimes it can help you to trace | | | | seemed to be because of high cholesterol levels, |
| and pinpoint occurrences of illness.My father and | | | | leading to a fatal heart attack.Once I had |
| two of my brothers had all died of heart attacks | | | | concluded my investigation, I discussed this with a |
| at a fairly young age. My dad and my eldest | | | | heart disease specialist, and after examining all my |
| brother were in their forties, and my younger | | | | paper work, he called my nephews in for medical |
| brother was just thirty two years old.In tracing | | | | checks. In two of my three nephews, he |
| back my paternal side of the family, I discovered | | | | discovered that they had severe cholesterol levels |
| that rarely did any of the males live beyond the | | | | (above the 15 mark) and needed immediate |
| age of forty four, and many had died of heart | | | | medication.The information was too late to save |
| disease before they reached the ripe old age of | | | | my dad and brothers, but at least my nephews |
| forty. The females in the family line hardly ever | | | | are okay.A different branch of family history, but |
| suffered with any heart trouble at all.It occurred | | | | a useful one. |
| to me that the heart disease in the male line was | | | | |