High Cholesterol: Getting Tested, Understanding Your Numbers and Healthy Changes

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About Course

High cholesterol usually causes no symptoms, yet it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. This course explains what cholesterol is, who should get tested and how, what the NHS healthy levels are, and practical food, activity, smoking and alcohol changes that fit around working life.

Tutwoo is an independent learning provider. This course is general health awareness based on NHS information. It is not medical advice: speak to your GP or pharmacist about your own health and any medicines.

© 2026 Tutwoo UK Limited. This course was created in-house by Tutwoo and is our original work. It is for your own learning only: please do not copy, share, record or resell it.

What Will You Learn?

  • Explain HDL and non-HDL cholesterol in plain English
  • Know who should get tested and where, including the NHS Health Check
  • Read a cholesterol result against the NHS healthy levels
  • Make practical changes at work and home to lower cholesterol

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • What cholesterol is and why it matters
  • Getting tested and reading your result
  • Lowering cholesterol: changes that fit working life

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

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