Peter Attia· MD
I'd love to see a V LDL cholesterol below 15 milligrams per deciliter as calculated by taking non HDL cholesterol subtracting the LDL cholesterol which if you have a direct LDL cholesterol is your best measurement of that
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I'd love to see a V LDL cholesterol below 15 milligrams per deciliter as calculated by taking non HDL cholesterol subtracting the LDL cholesterol which if you have a direct LDL cholesterol is your best measurement of that
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you can estimate v LDL cholesterol in two ways you can take triglyceride and divide by five and the higher the triglyceride level the less accurate that becomes
You can take non HDL cholesterol and subtract LDL cholesterol from it and you'll get that you'll get an estimate as well those two don't often agree by the way
but that probably is a better proxy than taking triglyceride and dividing by 5 which is the other poor man's way to get a V ldl-c