When discussing lipid metrics, one should refer to LDL cholesterol, not simply LDL, to avoid misidentification as a laboratory metric rather than a lipoprotein particle.

“You'd think intermediate was between high and low right? Wrong.”

“let you stop telling people what your LDL ask them what is your LDL cholesterol”

“it's very important I think to be accurate in our nomenclature”

“there's those thing as an LDL or an HDL that you can check at a lab you can measure the content of cholest cherol within the LDL that's called ldlc and similarly you can measure the content of cholesterol within the HDL that's called hdlc”

“so when you have a basic lipid panel and it says your HDL is 50 well if you read the fine print what it's actually saying is your HDL cholesterol concentration is 50 milligrams per deciliter so don't say that your LDL is 120 say that your LDL cholesterol is 120 Mig per deciliter it's very important I think to be accurate in our nomenclature”