Peter Attia· MD
the formula for estimating LDL cholesterol became total cholesterol - HDL cholesterol - triglycerides / 5
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the formula for estimating LDL cholesterol became total cholesterol - HDL cholesterol - triglycerides / 5
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if your triglycerides get above 400 don't use that calculation it's ridiculous so they actually develop the direct LDL see to give us a LDL cholesterol metric and people with triglycerides of eight hundred twelve hundred four thousand
formulas thoughts to become kind of erroneous that somewhere between a trigger 150 and 200 and the higher you go above 200 be careful with a calculated LDL cholesterol
please you can't get vldl cholesterol using the free to world calculated ldl cholesterol