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You can dramatically reduce your risk of early death by making a few simple lifestyle changes.

Familial hypercholesterolaemia is an inherited condition characterised by higher than normal levels of blood cholesterol.

Cirrhosis is a type of liver damage where healthy cells are replaced by scar tissue.

Your body needs cholesterol, but it can make its own. You don't need cholesterol in your diet.

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, can increase your risk of heart attack, kidney failure and stroke.

An enlarged heart isn?t a condition in itself, but a symptom of an underlying problem that is causing the heart to work harder than normal.

Osteomyelitis means an infection of bone which can either be recent or longstanding.

Hashimoto's disease progresses very slowly over many years, so the symptoms may go unnoticed.

If a person habitually eats more kilojoules than they burn, they will have raised triglyceride levels in the blood.

Common cereal foods include bread, breakfast cereals and pasta.