bulkbiker
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- Type of diabetes
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Thanks everyone for your input! There is a lot to consider, definitely. But still as of now there is no way I will take statins. It's just really irritating how health practitioners are relentless in pushing them.
So here are my lipid panel results from last week. My total cholesterol and LDL have decreased, but unfortunately so has my HDL, and my trigs have increased a bit.
Total cholesterol: 5.2
HDL: 1.88
LDL: 3.1
Cholesterol/HDL: 2.8
Trigs: 1.16
I noticed that the cut-off for total cholesterol was 6.2 mmol/l in 2018 when I had my first lipid panel, now it's down to 5.0, and for LDL it was 4.1, now it's down to 3.1!
Had you fasted pre blood test?
Also if (as I do) you believe that ratios are more important than absolute values and that Trig/HDL is the most important ratio then...
Anything under 0.87 is considered excellent.. yours is 1.16/1.88 = 0.62 which is great.
Live long and prosper, statin free!