A professor of Biochemistry at the Bayero University Kano (BUK), Muhammad Atiku Kano, has stated that despite its perceived negative consequences in the human body, Serum Lipids (cholesterol) Panels “play an important role in protecting humans from contracting cardiovascular and other related diseases.”
Speaking at the 43rd Professorial Inaugural Lecture held on Thursday in Kano on “Serum Lipids and Lipoproteins: A Course or a Blessing?, he said “it is interesting to note that serum lipids play an important function in human body which is checking the risk of heart diseases.”
“Viewed from the double-edged perspective, lipids may either be a blessing or a course depending on its functions in normal or diseased conditions respectively,” he said.
As way of maintaining normal lipids, he advised that people should be encouraged to indulge in regular physical activity, reduction in stress levels, decrease or total abstinence from alcoholism, smoking and consumption of fat-rich foods.
Earlier, the vice-chancellor, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello, who was represented by the deputy vice-chancellor (academics), Prof. Adamu Idris Tanko, commended the lecture committee for “living up to the expectation of organising regular presentation of the lectures.”
