The difference in peak to nadir LDL cholesterol during the menstrual cycle is approximately 10-12 mg/dL, and for total cholesterol, it ranges from about 158 to 168 mg/dL.

“I generally recommend clinicians measure the lipid panel during the Menses so that it's ideally measured monitored and compared at the same time during the menstrual cycle so usually the Menses is easiest to Benchmark to we do that when we're concerned with as women become perimenopausal and we want to start getting a sense of what's Happening we always use day five so if the initiation of Menses even if it's spotting is day one but we always just pick day five and that way we”

“the difference between the peak and Nader of LDL cholesterol is about 10 to 12 milligrams per deciliter or is that total cholesterol that was total cholesterol but it mirrors the difference in LDL as well so this was a study that um published on average total cholesterol may go from 158 to 168 where LDL on average went from 97 to 102.”