Question Set for Biochemistry 12-3-2021
What is cholesterol?
How is cholesterol synthesized in the body? Give for example the earliest
molecule in the pathway?
What are HDL, LDL, and VLDL?
What causes high cholesterol?
What factors can raise my risk of high cholesterol?
What health problems can high cholesterol cause?
How is high cholesterol diagnosed?
What are statins? What biochemical step in cholesterol synthesis do statins
block?
Give two examples of pharmaceutical medicines that are classified as statins?