Although no specific numbers were provided about blood pressure (BP) or cholesterol, evidence has shown that a combination of hypertension (high blood pressure), hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol blood levels, with accent on LDL cholesterol fraction), angina pectoris (chest pain), and smoking, greatly raises the risk of a heart attack, even at a younger age (especially when family genetic predisposition exists, like in familial hypercholesterolemia, for example).
At this point, you might want to start practicing a healthy lifestyle with a low-fat / low salt diet, smoking cessation, everyday physical exercises (like swimming or yoga, for example) as well as regular follow ups with your family doctor (at least every three months), who might want to start you on statins or other antilipidemic drugs, if necessary.
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