spiritfree
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I had results back from blood tests today. It said that my hdl levels were 0.6, which is lower than normal. Can someone, please, tell me what hdl is?
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Vicsetter
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Try this explanation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/cholesterol1.shtml
and here: http://heartuk.org.uk/cholesterol-health/cholesterol
and here: http://heartuk.org.uk/cholesterol-health/cholesterol
trophywench
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Haha! Wrong.
LDL isn't bad for you. In fact it's essential for you as it is part of the mechanism whereby your body repairs itself - especially in your BRAIN.
But there are two bits of it, the good part that you want and the bad part whih you don't. The bad is VLDL and that is because it stands for VERY Low Density Lipids. LOL
There is a test they can do for LDL but in practice actually they hardly ever measure it. If they want to know the LDL level, they measure the HDL and the Trigs (triglycerides) and from those, they calculate the LDL level. The important part is to keep all 3 components in balance because from the relationship between the 3 they should be able to roughly estimate what state your LDL is in. There are 'ideal' ratios and more and more that's all GPs go on.
I once tried to have a conversation about Chol with my GP - of course he said I MUST take statins with my LDL level - saying to him conversationally Of course, if you really wanted to know what my LDL was like, you'd be measuring my Apolipoprotein A and B, wouldn't you? Then we could have a proper conversation about this and both know what we were dealing with here. But it appears you don't really want to know that. So I know you are basing your clinical assessment on only half the info, and therefore I'm not inclined to listen to it. I like to make informed decisions about my health.
Plus I keep telling him there isn't any published lipids research on Northern European Type 1 diabetic post menopausal women. Or indeed on post menopausal women at all, except the American one that proved as both sexes get progressively older it actually seems better to have HIGHER chol than 'normal' if you want to avoid a heart attack.
LOL
LDL isn't bad for you. In fact it's essential for you as it is part of the mechanism whereby your body repairs itself - especially in your BRAIN.
But there are two bits of it, the good part that you want and the bad part whih you don't. The bad is VLDL and that is because it stands for VERY Low Density Lipids. LOL
There is a test they can do for LDL but in practice actually they hardly ever measure it. If they want to know the LDL level, they measure the HDL and the Trigs (triglycerides) and from those, they calculate the LDL level. The important part is to keep all 3 components in balance because from the relationship between the 3 they should be able to roughly estimate what state your LDL is in. There are 'ideal' ratios and more and more that's all GPs go on.
I once tried to have a conversation about Chol with my GP - of course he said I MUST take statins with my LDL level - saying to him conversationally Of course, if you really wanted to know what my LDL was like, you'd be measuring my Apolipoprotein A and B, wouldn't you? Then we could have a proper conversation about this and both know what we were dealing with here. But it appears you don't really want to know that. So I know you are basing your clinical assessment on only half the info, and therefore I'm not inclined to listen to it. I like to make informed decisions about my health.
Plus I keep telling him there isn't any published lipids research on Northern European Type 1 diabetic post menopausal women. Or indeed on post menopausal women at all, except the American one that proved as both sexes get progressively older it actually seems better to have HIGHER chol than 'normal' if you want to avoid a heart attack.
LOL
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